SQL Server function to return the “Xrd” day of a month and year.

USE [Tools]
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
-- select dbo.XrdDay(4,'thursday', 'november', 2018)	-- Thanksgiving
-- select dbo.XrdDay(4,'thursday', 'november', 2019)	-- Thanksgiving
-- select dbo.XrdDay(4,'thursday', 'november', 2020)	-- Thanksgiving

-- Must have the day of week and the name of month spelled correctly.
alter function [dbo].[XrdDay](
	@xrd int				--3rd, 4th, 5th, etc.
	,@dayname varchar(8)	--'saturday'
	,@month varchar(10)		--'february'
	,@year smallint			--year
)
returns date
as 
begin
	-- declare @xrd int = 3; declare @dayname varchar(8) = 'monday'; declare @month varchar(10) = 'september'; declare @year smallint = 2019;

	declare @Result date=  @month + ' ' + convert(varchar(64),(@xrd*7) - 6) + ',' + convert(varchar(64), @year);	-- get Sunday.
	--select @Result, datename(weekday, @Result);

	--I'm fairly sure this is inefficient, but I can't seem to recall of another way around it.
	--to make it better, we need to calc @sunday+int==dayname in one go, not this while loop.
	while datename(weekday, @Result) collate SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS != @dayname set @Result = dateadd( day, 1, @Result );
	--select @Result, datename(weekday, @Result);

	return @Result;
end;

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