CREATE FUNCTION ISOweek (@DATE datetime) RETURNS int AS BEGIN DECLARE @ISOweek int SET @ISOweek= DATEPART(wk,@DATE)+1 -DATEPART(wk,CAST(DATEPART(yy,@DATE)

as CHAR(4))+'0104') --Special cases: Jan 1-3 may belong to the previous year IF (@ISOweek=0) SET @ISOweek=dbo.ISOweek(CAST(DATEPART(yy,@DATE)-1 AS CHAR(4))+'12'+ CAST(24+DATEPART(DAY,@DATE) AS CHAR(2)))+1 --Special case: Dec 29-31 may belong to the next year IF ((DATEPART(mm,@DATE)=12) AND ((DATEPART(dd,@DATE)-DATEPART(dw,@DATE))>= 28)) SET @ISOweek=1 RETURN(@ISOweek) END

Here is the function call. Notice that DATEFIRST is set to 1.

SET DATEFIRST 1 SELECT master.dbo.ISOweek('12/26/1999') AS 'ISO Week'

Here is the result set.

ISO Week ---------------52
B. Inline table-valued function

This example returns an inline table-valued function.

USE pubs GO CREATE FUNCTION SalesByStore (@storeid varchar(30)) RETURNS TABLE AS RETURN (SELECT title, qty FROM sales s, titles t WHERE s.stor_id = @storeid and t.title_id = s.title_id)
C. Multi-statement table-valued function

Given a table that represents a hierarchical relationship:

CREATE TABLE employees (empid nchar(5) PRIMARY KEY, empname nvarchar(50), mgrid nchar(5) REFERENCES employees(empid), title nvarchar(30) )

The table-valued function fn_FindReports(InEmpID), which -- given an Employee ID -- returns a table corresponding to all the employees that report to the given employee directly or indirectly. This logic is not expressible in a single query and is a good candidate for implementing as a user-defined function.
CREATE FUNCTION fn_FindReports (@InEmpId nchar(5)) RETURNS @retFindReports TABLE (empid nchar(5) primary key, empname nvarchar(50) NOT NULL, mgrid nchar(5), title nvarchar(30)) /*Returns a result set that lists all the employees who report to given employee directly or indirectly.*/ AS BEGIN DECLARE @RowsAdded int -- table variable to hold accumulated results DECLARE @reports TABLE (empid nchar(5) primary key, empname nvarchar(50) NOT NULL, mgrid nchar(5), title nvarchar(30), processed tinyint default 0) -- initialize @Reports with direct reports of the given employee INSERT @reports SELECT empid, empname, mgrid, title, 0 FROM employees WHERE empid = @InEmpId SET @RowsAdded = @@rowcount -- While new employees were added in the previous iteration WHILE @RowsAdded > 0 BEGIN /*Mark all employee records whose direct reports are going to be found in this iteration with processed=1.*/ UPDATE @reports SET processed = 1 WHERE processed = 0 -- Insert employees who report to employees marked 1. INSERT @reports SELECT e.empid, e.empname, e.mgrid, e.title, 0 FROM employees e, @reports r WHERE e.mgrid=r.empid and e.mgrid <> e.empid and r.processed = 1 SET @RowsAdded = @@rowcount /*Mark all employee records whose direct reports have been found in this iteration.*/ UPDATE @reports SET processed = 2 WHERE processed = 1 END -- copy to the result of the function the required columns INSERT @retFindReports SELECT empid, empname, mgrid, title FROM @reports RETURN END GO

-- Example invocation SELECT * FROM fn_FindReports('11234') GO See Also

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