Generating a Master Calendar

Why do you need a master calendar? How is the calendar created?

Fills gaps in the data
Allows you to generate additional fields 1. Acquire range
WeekNum, Month, Year, etc

Without Master Calendar 2. Generate temporary calendar

Each data point represents a transaction
TemporaryCalendar:
This could mean lost insights
LOAD
2 DATE($(vFirstDate) + ROWNO() -1) AS TempDate
AUTOGENERATE
1 $(vLastDate) - $(vFirstDate) + 1;

Its not clear that 3. Generate master calendar

there was no activity on
MasterCalendar:
15/06/2015
LOAD
TempDate AS OrderDate,
With Master Calendar WEEK(TempDate) AS Week,
Now we see $0 sales on the 15th YEAR(TempDate) AS Year,
MONTH(TempDate) AS Month,
DAY(TempDate) AS Day,
2 WEEKDAY (TempDate) AS Weekday,
1
'Q' & CEIL(MONTH(TempDate) / 3) AS Quarter,
DATE(MONTHSTART(TempDate), 'MMM-YYYY') AS MonthYear,
WEEK(TempDate) & '-' & YEAR(TempDate) AS WeekYear
RESIDENT TemporaryCalendar;
3
DROP TABLE TemporaryCalendar;
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