Make a list of public holidays dates

Question:  I need to write a SQL that filters out for a list of public holidays and I need to know how to generate a list of public holidays into an Oracle table.  Where does Oracle keep the function to create a list of dates for public holidays?

Answer: As noted in  the great book Oracle Job Scheduling,  you can generate a list of dates very easily.  David Aldridge creates a list_of_dates PL/SQL function for this:

create or replace type timestamp_table_type
is
table of timestamp;
/

create or replace function
 list_of_dates (
   calendar_string varchar2,
   start_date      TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE,
   stop_date       TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE)
return
  timestamp_table_type
pipelined
is
  l_return_date_after TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE := start_date - interval '1' second;
  l_next_run_date     TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE;
begin
  loop
    DBMS_SCHEDULER.EVALUATE_CALENDAR_STRING(  
      calendar_string   => list_of_dates.calendar_string,
      start_date        => list_of_dates.start_date,
      return_date_after => l_return_date_after,
      next_run_date     => l_next_run_date);

      exit when list_of_dates.l_next_run_date > coalesce(list_of_dates.stop_date,date '9999-12-31');

      pipe row (list_of_dates.l_next_run_date);

      list_of_dates.l_return_date_after    := list_of_dates.l_next_run_date;

 end loop;
end;
/

Using this list_of_dates function you can generate a list of complex date from dbms_scheduler:

-- ******************************************
-- generate list of weekday dates
-- ******************************************
create table
   weekdays
as
select *
from   table(
list_of_dates(
'WEEKDAYS;EXCLUDE=PUBLIC_HOLIDAYS',
sysdate    ,
null));

-- ********************************************
-- generate list of weekday dates, no holidays
-- ********************************************
create table
   weekdays_no_holidays
as
select *
from   table(
list_of_dates(
'WEEKDAYS;EXCLUDE=PUBLIC_HOLIDAYS',
sysdate    ,
null));

-- ********************************************
-- generate list of weekends
-- ********************************************
create table
   weekends
as
select *
from   table(
list_of_dates(
'WEEKENDS',
sysdate    ,
null));

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