• ditha (4/20/2015)


    Please Help - GENERATE 8 CHARACTER ALPHANUMERIC SEQUENCES

    Requirements

    • ALPHANUMERIC FORMAT – > AA00AA00………..ZZ99ZZ99

    Last 8 bytes will alternate between 2 byte alpha/2 byte numeric

    • Generate from Alphabets – A through Z Numbers -0 to 9

    • Generate Unique Sequence (No Duplicates).

    • Must Eliminate letters I and O

    Output Expected

    • AA00AA00………..ZZ99ZZ99

    • Using 24 alphabets & 10 digits ,

    24*24*10*10*24*24 = 3 317 760 000 records

    Below is my Sql Function -

    CREATE function [dbo].[SequenceComplexNEW]

    (

    @Id BIGINT

    )

    Returns char(8)

    AS

    BEGIN

    DECLARE @OUT AS CHAR(8)--,@Id as Bigint

    WHILE

    char(@Id / power(26,3) % 26 + 65) between char(65) and char(90)

    and char(@Id / power(26,2) % 26 + 65) between char(65) and char(90)

    and char(@Id / 26 % 26 + 65) between char(65) and char(90)

    and char(@Id % 26 + 65) >= char(65) and char(@Id % 26 + 65) <= char(90)

    --and char(@Id / power(26,3) % 26 + 65) != char(73)

    --and char(@Id / power(26,2) % 26 + 65) != char(73)

    --and char(@Id / 26 % 26 + 65) != char(73)

    --and char(@Id / power(26,3) % 26 + 65) != char(79)

    --and char(@Id / power(26,2) % 26 + 65) != char(79)

    --and char(@Id / 26 % 26 + 65) != char(79)

    --and char(@Id % 26 + 65) != char(79)

    and char(@Id/power(10,3)%10 + 48) between char(48) and char(57)

    and char(@Id/power(10,2)%10 + 48) between char(48) and char(57)

    and char(@Id/power(10,1)%10 + 48) between char(48) and char(57)

    and char(@Id%10+48) between char(48) and char(57)

    BEGIN

    SET @OUT =

    char(@Id/power(26,3)%26 + 65)

    +char(@Id/power(26,2)%26 + 65)

    +char(@Id/power(10,3)%10 + 48)

    +char(@Id/power(10,2)%10 + 48)

    +char(@Id/power(26,1)%26 + 65)

    +Case WHEN char(@Id % 26 + 65) >= char(73) THEN char(@Id % 26 + 66) -- WHEN char(@Id % 26 + 65) >= char(79) THEN char(@Id % 26 + 66)

    Else char(@Id%26 + 65) END

    --+char(@Id % 26 + 65)

    +char(@Id/power(10,1)%10 + 48)

    +char(@Id%10+48)

    IF char(@Id % 26 + 65) > char(90)

    BEGIN

    BREAK

    END

    ELSE

    CONTINUE

    --Print @out

    END

    RETURN @OUT

    END

    GO

    This should be done in a programming language and not in t-sql or even better not at all. The requirements here are quite unique and not something that you see with t-sql often, if at all. What is the real world usage for this requirement?

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