CTEs

For Dates in a calendar style report you could use the following to generate the dates.

   with mycte as

   ( select cast('2012-01-01' as datetime) DateValue

        union all

        select DateValue + 1

        from    mycte  

         where   DateValue + 1 < getdate())

   -- select DateValue

   -- from    mycte

   --OPTION (MAXRECURSION 0)

select DateValue,

Year(DateValue) as Year,

DATEPART(Quarter ,DateValue) as Quarter,

DATENAME( month,DateValue) as MonthName,

DATEPART(m ,DateValue)  as MonthNo,

day (DateValue) as Day

from    mycte

OPTION (MAXRECURSION 0)