Date Dimension Script with Fiscal Year

One dimension you can be positive will always make it's way into your data warehouse is the Date dimension. Over the past couple of years I have taken a look at a lot of Date dimension scripts and found quite a few good ones. Well recently I needed to add fiscal date to the dimension and the script I had didn't let me do that properly. Rarely does the fiscal year start and end on the same dates every year. Most companies adopt some kind of 4-4-5 or 4-5-4 model for their year. The script below will allow you to, if you choose, add fiscal date to the dimension. I just did some modifications on this script (since I combined a bunch that I have found and rewrote/added things I needed over time) so please let me know if you find any issues with it and I will happily update it as soon as possible! If you see some of your code in here please leave a comment as I can't remember all the places where I have pulled from, but there are many great resources that went into this script collaboration, I can't take credit for it all. Bookmark this page and/or save a copy of the script, chances are you will need it again sometime in the near future. I do have to add the portion back in where I add the indexes on, so I apologize for that missing right now. This file contains:

DimDate.sql - The new combined SQL script with both calendar and fiscal. This also includes several fields that are NOT in the other files
Date Dimension.sql - A version of the Date Dimension I have used for a while, but does not have fiscal date in it and does not have the added fields from the first script.
Date Dimension Add Fiscal Date.sql - Adds fiscal dates to the second script. This logic has been folded into script number 1 with the same columns that are included here.

Download the Zip file here: DimDate

Date Dimension Script with Fiscal Year

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