SQL for last year starting and ending dates - response (3) by VandeBergB

The starting dates and end dates for a year are constant, why would you waste cpu cycles trying find max/min.  The year always starts with January 1 and ends with December 31.  If its a leap year you might have an additional date stuck in between (February 29), but the endpoints are always, until some Pope decides to change the calendar again....:-)