need help writing a date sensitive T-SQL query - tsql

Question

I need help writing a T-SQL query that will generate 52 rows of data per franchise from a table that will often contain gaps in the 52 week sequence per franchise (i.e., the franchise may have reported data bi-weekly or has not been in business for a full year).
The table I'm querying against looks something like this:
FranchiseId | Date | ContractHours | PrivateHours
and I need to join it to a table similar to this:
FranchiseId | Name
The output of the query needs to look like this:
Name | Date | ContractHours | PrivateHours
---- ---------- ------------- ------------
AZ1 08-02-2011 292 897
AZ1 07-26-2011 0 0 -- default to 0's for gaps in sequence
...
AZ1 08-03-2010 45 125 -- row 52 for AZ1
AZ2 08-02-2011 382 239
...
AZ2 07-26-2011 0 0 -- row 52 for AZ2
I need this style of output for every franchise, i.e., 52 rows of data with default rows for any gaps in the 52 week sequence, in a single result set. Thus, if there are 100 franchises, the result set should be 5200 rows.
What I've Tried
I've tried the typical suggestions of:
Create a table with all possible dates
LEFT OUTER JOIN this to the table of data needed
The problems I'm running into are
ensuring that for every franchise their are 52 rows and
filling in gaps with the franchise name and 0 for hours, I can't
have the following in the result set:
Name | Date | ContractHours | PrivateHours
---- ---------- ------------- ------------
NULL 08-02-2011 NULL NULL
I don't know where to go from here? Is there an efficient way to write a T-SQL query that will produce the required output?

Answer 1

The bare bones is this
Generate 52 week ranges
Cross join with Franchise
LEFT JOIN the actual date
ISNULL to substitute zeroes
So, like this, untested
;WITH cDATE AS
(
SELECT
CAST('20100101' AS date /*smalldatetime*/) AS StartOfWeek,
CAST('20100101' AS date /*smalldatetime*/) + 6 AS EndOfWeek
UNION ALL
SELECT StartOfWeek + 7, EndOfWeek + 7
FROM cDATE WHERE StartOfWeek + 7 < '20110101'
), Possibles AS
(
SELECT
StartOfWeek, FranchiseID
FROM
cDATE CROSS JOIN Franchise
)
SELECT
P.FranchiseID,
P.StartOfWeek,
ISNULL(SUM(O.ContractHours), 0),
ISNULL(SUM(O.PrivateHours), 0)
FROM
Possibles P
LEFT JOIN
TheOtherTable O ON P.FranchiseID = O.FranchiseID AND
O.Date BETWEEN P.StartOfWeek AND P.EndOfWeek
GROUP BY
P.FranchiseID