Building an Event Calendar from T-SQL and CSS

Aaron Bertrand builds some HTML:

In my last tip, I showed how to use T-SQL to generate HTML for fancy calendar visuals overlaid with event data from another table. As an extension of that tip, let’s now look at simplifying parts of that query by caching the date information in a calendar table to streamline the outer queries and avoid complications caused by different DATEFIRST settings.

This is the follow-on from a prior post (linked in the lede here), so it would make sense to read that one first if you haven’t already.