@@DATEFIRST – Get the First Day of the Week in SQL Server

In SQL Server, the first day of the week is determined by the current language settings. You can also override that with the SET DATEFIRST statement, which allows you to explicitly set the first day of the week.

In either case, you can use the @@DATEFIRST function to find out what settings your session is using for the first day of the week. This article demonstrates how.

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SET DATEFIRST – Set the First Day of the Week in SQL Server

In SQL Server, you can use SET DATEFIRST to set the first day of the week.

The first day of the week can be different, depending on the language being used. For example the default for us_English is 7 (Sunday), whereas the default for Deutsch (German) is 1 (Monday).

This article demonstrates how to change the first day of the week without changing the language.

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