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Friday, February 27, 2009

TSQL Challenge 1

Moved to http://beyondrelational.com/tc/challenge1

3 comments:

  1. My answer :

    SELECT a.Code, a.aname, bc.bname, bc.cname FROM @a a
    LEFT OUTER JOIN
    (
    SELECT b.bname , c.cname, b.RowN, c.RowN AS cRowN,
    CASE WHEN b.Code IS NOT NULL THEN b.Code ELSE c.Code END as Code
    FROM ( SELECT * , ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY Code ORDER BY Code) AS RowN FROM @b b) b
    FULL OUTER JOIN ( SELECT * , ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY Code ORDER BY Code) AS RowN FROM @c c) c
    ON b.Code = c.Code
    AND b.RowN = c.RowN
    ) bc
    On a.Code = bc.Code

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  2. kwangsa,
    Thank you for submitting your entry. The tricky part of this query is to make it work in SQL Server 2000. Your query uses ROW_NUMBER() that is available only in SQL Server 2005.

    I will post the next challenge in a day or two.

    regards
    Jacob

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  3. Anonymous4:52 PM

    I'm sure there's a far shorter way of doing it, but this only uses standard SQL :
    ----------------------------------

    DECLARE @d TABLE (code INT, aname VARCHAR(10), bname VARCHAR(10), cname VARCHAR(10))

    DECLARE @q1b AS INT
    DECLARE @q1c AS INT
    DECLARE @q2 AS VARCHAR(10)
    DECLARE @q3 AS VARCHAR(10)
    DECLARE @q4 AS VARCHAR(10)

    SET @q1b = (SELECT TOP 1 a.code FROM @a AS a, @b AS b WHERE a.code = b.code AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM @d AS d WHERE d.code = a.code AND d.bname = b.bname))
    SET @q1c = (SELECT TOP 1 a.code FROM @a AS a, @c AS c WHERE a.code = c.code AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM @d AS d WHERE d.code = a.code AND d.cname = c.cname))

    WHILE @q1b IS NOT NULL AND @q1c IS NOT NULL
    BEGIN

    SET @q1b = (SELECT TOP 1 a.code FROM @a AS a, @b AS b WHERE a.code = b.code AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM @d AS d WHERE d.code = a.code AND d.bname = b.bname))
    SET @q1c = (SELECT TOP 1 a.code FROM @a AS a, @c AS c WHERE a.code = c.code AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM @d AS d WHERE d.code = a.code AND d.cname = c.cname))

    IF (@q1b IS NOT NULL AND @q1b < @q1c) OR @q1c IS NULL
    INSERT INTO @d
    SELECT TOP 1 @q1b,a.aname,b.bname,NULL
    FROM @a AS a, @b AS b
    WHERE a.code = b.code
    AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM @d AS d WHERE d.code = a.code AND d.bname = b.bname)
    ELSE
    IF @q1b IS NULL OR (@q1c IS NOT NULL AND @q1c < @q1b)
    INSERT INTO @d
    SELECT TOP 1 @q1c,a.aname,NULL,c.cname
    FROM @a AS a, @c AS c
    WHERE a.code = c.code
    AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM @d AS d WHERE d.code = a.code AND d.cname = c.cname)
    ELSE
    BEGIN
    SET @q2 = (SELECT TOP 1 a.aname FROM @a AS a, @b AS b WHERE a.code = b.code AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM @d AS d WHERE d.code = a.code AND d.bname = b.bname))
    SET @q3 = (SELECT TOP 1 b.bname FROM @a AS a, @b AS b WHERE a.code = b.code AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM @d AS d WHERE d.code = a.code AND d.bname = b.bname))
    SET @q4 = (SELECT TOP 1 c.cname FROM @a AS a, @c AS c WHERE a.code = c.code AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM @d AS d WHERE d.code = a.code AND d.cname = c.cname))
    INSERT INTO @d SELECT @q1c,@q2,@q3,@q4
    END
    END

    INSERT INTO @d
    SELECT a.code,a.aname,NULL,NULL
    FROM @a AS a
    WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM @b AS b WHERE b.code = a.code)
    AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM @c AS c WHERE c.code = a.code)

    SELECT * FROM @d

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