Problem with easy function

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I am reviewing the functions but I cannot solve this one;

Write a function that returns every Tuesday the 13th during a specific year.

Example:

SELECT * FROM martes13(2020);

13/02/2020
13/03/2020
13/12/2020

There's no way to solve it no matter how hard I try, I understand that I have to use dates, years intervals and counters but it does not work out. Any help or information could be of use to me.

Thanks in advance.

What I have tried:

DECLARE

auxData date;
dates date[];
BEGIN

anio2:= date_part('year',data_fi);
auxData:=anio||'-'||mes||'-'||1;

FOR i IN 1..12 BY 1 LOOP

FOR j IN 1..30 BY 1 LOOP

auxData:=anio||'-'||i||'-'||j;
if(date_part('day',auxData)==13 and date_part('dow',auxData)==2)then

dates[j]=auxData;

end if;
end loop;
end loop;
return dates;

Posted 9-Jun-21 23:14pm

Pangolin98

Updated 10-Jun-21 1:05am

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Richard MacCutchan 10-Jun-21 5:17am

The query should be: IF dayofmonth == 13 AND dayofweek == TUESDAY ...

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Richard Deeming · Answer 1 · 2021-06-10T01:05:00

Simple: select the 13th of every month in the year, and then exclude those which don't fall on a Thursday.

For SQL Server:

SQL

WITH cteThirteens (Thirteenth) As
(
    SELECT DATEFROMPARTS(@year, 1, 13)
    UNION SELECT DATEFROMPARTS(@year, 2, 13)
    UNION SELECT DATEFROMPARTS(@year, 3, 13)
    ... continue for all 12 months ...
)
SELECT
    Thirteenth
FROM
    cteThirteens
WHERE
    ((DATEPART(dw, Thirteenth) + @@DATEFIRST - 1) % 7) = 4
;

NB: You need to take the @@DATEFIRST value into account, since it will alter the weekday numbers returned by the DATEPART function.
DATEPART (Transact-SQL) - SQL Server | Microsoft Docs[^]

Also note that your expected results are incorrect:

13th March 2020 was a Friday, not a Thursday, so it should not be included.
13th December 2020 was a Sunday, not a Thursday, so it should not be included.
13th August 2020 was a Thursday, so it's missing from your expected output.