Fourteen years ago I wrote a short piece on Returning the Days in a Month that has consistently been one of my most popular bits of content. Anton Zlygostev helped update that piece in 2010 by providing a more elegant solution than my original. Now I return to that problem thanks to an interesting question from reader Arturo Ramirez.
Posing the Question
Arturo was after a solution encompassing more than a single month. Following is the question he put to me:
"What if you had two different ranges?
beg_date end_date 01-Jan-2013 15-Jan-2013 15-Mar-2013 02-Apr-2013How do you generate individual rows for each day between 01/01 to 01/15, and between 03/15 to 04/02?"