Create a datetime dimension table with start and end dates

Hi

I want to create a table that has a datetime column, data type=datetime and I want the date to start form 01/01/2004 00:00:00 to 01/01/2008 00:00:00 the increment will be by minute like

01/01/2004 00:01:00

01/01/2004 00:02:00

01/01/2004 00:03:00 and so on up to 01/01/2008 00:00:00

I will use this time dimension in bussiness objects.

please provide me with the SQL sript to do this.

CREATE TABLE DimensionTable

(

IdCol INT IDENTITY(1,1),

Timecol DATETIME

)

GO

DECLARE @.Startdate DATETIME

DECLARE @.Enddate DATETIME

SET @.Startdate = '20040101'

SET @.Enddate = '20080101'

WHILE @.Startdate < @.Enddate

BEGIN

INSERT INTO DimensionTable

(

TimeCol

)

SELECT @.Startdate

SET @.Startdate = DATEADD(mi,1,@.Startdate)

END

That could take some time :-)

HTH, jens Suessmeyer.

http://www.sqlserver2005.de

|||Thanks a lot