SQL for Data Transformation — Generating Monthly Price Data from Date Ranges

Tien Nguyen
3 min readOct 2, 2023

When working with time-series data in business analytics, it’s common to encounter scenarios where the data needs to be transformed for easier analysis or reporting. In many businesses, especially in industries like retail, utilities, or subscription services, prices can change over a range of dates. However, analyzing these changes often requires transforming this data into a different format where each month is explicitly linked to a price. This blog post will explore a SQL Server code snippet that performs this very task.

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Tien Nguyen

Senior Analyst with a strong passion for data and business strategy. "Learner/Sharer/Improver/Doer"