[sql-server] How to add days to the current date?

Two or three ways (depends what you want), say we are at Current Date is (in tsql code) -

DECLARE @myCurrentDate datetime = '11Apr2014 10:02:25 AM'

(BTW - did you mean 11April2014 or 04Nov2014 in your original post? hard to tell, as datetime is culture biased. In Israel 11/04/2015 means 11April2014. I know in the USA 11/04/2014 it means 04Nov2014. tommatoes tomatos I guess)

  1. SELECT @myCurrentDate + 360 - by default datetime calculations followed by + (some integer), just add that in days. So you would get 2015-04-06 10:02:25.000 - not exactly what you wanted, but rather just a ball park figure for a close date next year.

  2. SELECT DateADD(DAY, 365, @myCurrentDate) or DateADD(dd, 365, @myCurrentDate) will give you '2015-04-11 10:02:25.000'. These two are syntatic sugar (exacly the same). This is what you wanted, I should think. But it's still wrong, because if the date was a "3 out of 4" year (say DECLARE @myCurrentDate datetime = '11Apr2011 10:02:25 AM') you would get '2012-04-10 10:02:25.000'. because 2012 had 366 days, remember? (29Feb2012 consumes an "extra" day. Almost every fourth year has 29Feb).

  3. So what I think you meant was

    SELECT DateADD(year, 1, @myCurrentDate)
    

    which gives 2015-04-11 10:02:25.000.

  4. or better yet

    SELECT DateADD(year, 1, DateADD(day, DateDiff(day, 0, @myCurrentDate), 0))
    

    which gives you 2015-04-11 00:00:00.000 (because datetime also has time, right?). Subtle, ah?