Making a Table of Dates (Date List) in MySQL
2 min readMay 7, 2023
While not quite as pretty as BigQuery’s solution to making date lists, it is possible to make something similar with MySQL. The caveat being that this particular solution requires using a CTE, so it will only work from MySQL version 8.0…!
Solution
The solution is to use a recursive CTE (common table expression) and union dates.