Generate Dates between date ranges

Try this if you are using SQL Server 2005 or newer:

WITH Dates AS (
        SELECT
         [Date] = CONVERT(DATETIME,'09/01/2011')
        UNION ALL SELECT
         [Date] = DATEADD(DAY, 1, [Date])
        FROM
         Dates
        WHERE
         Date < '10/10/2011'
) SELECT
 [Date]
FROM
 Dates
 OPTION (MAXRECURSION 45)

A good example of cool stuff you can do with a CTE.

-- Declarations

DECLARE @dates TABLE(dt datetime)    
DECLARE @dateFrom datetime
DECLARE @dateTo datetime

SET @dateFrom = '2001/01/01'
SET @dateTo = '2001/01/12'

-- Query:

WHILE(@dateFrom < @dateTo)
BEGIN
   SELECT @dateFrom = DATEADD(day, 1,@dateFrom)
   INSERT INTO @dates 
   SELECT @dateFrom
END

-- Output

SELECT * FROM @dates

Here is a solution that does not require recursion, and at the same time, this table-valued function is re-usable in many queries without the need to repeat the declaration of boilerplate variables again. This is the only alternative, for those who don't want recursion.

Create this simple function:

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[GenerateDateRange]
(@StartDate AS DATE,
 @EndDate AS   DATE,
 @Interval AS  INT
)
RETURNS @Dates TABLE(DateValue DATE)
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @CUR_DATE DATE
    SET @CUR_DATE = @StartDate
    WHILE @CUR_DATE <= @EndDate BEGIN
        INSERT INTO @Dates VALUES(@CUR_DATE)
        SET @CUR_DATE = DATEADD(DAY, @Interval, @CUR_DATE)
    END
    RETURN;
END;

And then select by:

select *
from dbo.GenerateDateRange('2017-01-03', '2017-12-01', 1)

Easy on SQL 2005+; easier if you have a numbers or tally table. I faked it below:

DECLARE @StartDate DATE = '20110901'
  , @EndDate DATE = '20111001'

SELECT  DATEADD(DAY, nbr - 1, @StartDate)
FROM    ( SELECT    ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( ORDER BY c.object_id ) AS nbr
          FROM      sys.columns c
        ) nbrs
WHERE   nbr - 1 <= DATEDIFF(DAY, @StartDate, @EndDate)

If you have a tally table, replace the subquery with the table. No recursion.

EDIT: Since folks seem to have questions about the tally table, let me rewrite this using a zero-based tally table. First, here's some code to create and populate a table.

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[nbrs](
    [nbr] [INT] NOT NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO


CREATE UNIQUE CLUSTERED INDEX [clidx] ON [dbo].[nbrs]
(
    [nbr] ASC
)
GO

INSERT INTO dbo.nbrs (nbr)
SELECT nbr-1
FROM ( SELECT    ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( ORDER BY c.object_id ) AS nbr
          FROM      sys.columns c
        ) nbrs
GO

Now, that you have the numbers table as a permanent object in your database, you can reuse it for the query INSTEAD of the subquery. The query has also been edited to use a zero-based calculation.

DECLARE @StartDate DATE = '20110901'
      , @EndDate DATE = '20111001'

SELECT  DATEADD(DAY, nbr, @DateStart)
FROM    nbrs
WHERE   nbr <= DATEDIFF(DAY, @DateStart, @DateEnd)

Performant, and no recursion.