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Minnu

Posted Monday, October 08, 2012 5:38 AM

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Hi,

I need to write a SQL query to print the following aphanumberic sequence in SQL 2008.

0001, 0002, ... , 0009, 000A, ... , 000Z, ... , 0010, 0011, ... , 001A, ... and so on till... , ZZZZ

all characters should be in UPPERCASE.

Please Help me...

Thanks in advance

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Posted Monday, October 08, 2012 5:45 AM

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Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but all of your posts look like homework. What have you tried so far?

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Posted Monday, October 08, 2012 5:49 AM

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Hi,

not exactly like home work, as per my requirement only am posting.

i've tried below code, but it is generating only number.

WITH Sequence ( SeqNo) as
(
SELECT 1
UNION ALL
SELECT SeqNo + 1
FROM Sequence
WHERE SeqNo < 1000

)
SELECT TOP 1000 * FROM Sequence
OPTION ( MAXRECURSION 0);
GO

please help me......

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Posted Monday, October 08, 2012 5:59 AM

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Use table constructor to generate your primary sequence, within a CTE. Then run a select from it, joined to itself 3 times (giving 4 references total in the FROM list). They can be CROSS JOINS or old fashioned comma joins. It works just fine. Have a try, post back if you are unsure.

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Minnu

Posted Monday, October 08, 2012 6:02 AM

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Below code is working in 'Oracle'

i need same output in sql.....

with digits as
( select n, chr(mod(n,36)+case when mod(n,36) < 10 then 48 else 55 end) d
from (Select rownum-1 as n from dual connect by level < 37)
)
select d0.n*36*36*36*36 + d1.n*36*36*36 + d2.n*36*36 + d3.n*36 + d4.n, d0.d||d1.d||d2.d||d3.d||d4.d
from digits d0,digits d1, digits d2, digits d3, digits d4

Plz

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Posted Monday, October 08, 2012 6:05 AM

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Skanda (10/8/2012)

You're looking at the top 1000 in your query, have you thought about how many rows there will actually be?

You have 36 characters in total for each digit (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z). So we're looking at 36*36*36*36 == 1,679,616 rows.

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Posted Monday, October 08, 2012 6:09 AM

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Skanda (10/8/2012)

Chris covered how in his post, did you try it?

SELECT a.Chr+b.Chr+c.Chr+d.Chr
FROM (VALUES('0'),('1'),('2'),('3'),('4'),('5'),('6'),
            ('7'),('8'),('9'),('A'),('B'),('C'),('D'),
            ('E'),('F'),('G'),('H'),('I'),('J'),('K'),
            ('L'),('M'),('N'),('O'),('P'),('Q'),('R'),
            ('S'),('T'),('U'),('V'),('W'),('X'),('Y'),
            ('Z')
            )a(Chr)
CROSS JOIN (VALUES('0'),('1'),('2'),('3'),('4'),('5'),('6'),
                  ('7'),('8'),('9'),('A'),('B'),('C'),('D'),
                  ('E'),('F'),('G'),('H'),('I'),('J'),('K'),
                  ('L'),('M'),('N'),('O'),('P'),('Q'),('R'),
                  ('S'),('T'),('U'),('V'),('W'),('X'),('Y'),
                  ('Z')
           )b(Chr)
CROSS JOIN (VALUES('0'),('1'),('2'),('3'),('4'),('5'),('6'),
                  ('7'),('8'),('9'),('A'),('B'),('C'),('D'),
                  ('E'),('F'),('G'),('H'),('I'),('J'),('K'),
                  ('L'),('M'),('N'),('O'),('P'),('Q'),('R'),
                  ('S'),('T'),('U'),('V'),('W'),('X'),('Y'),
                  ('Z')
           )c(Chr)
CROSS JOIN (VALUES('0'),('1'),('2'),('3'),('4'),('5'),('6'),
                  ('7'),('8'),('9'),('A'),('B'),('C'),('D'),
                  ('E'),('F'),('G'),('H'),('I'),('J'),('K'),
                  ('L'),('M'),('N'),('O'),('P'),('Q'),('R'),
                  ('S'),('T'),('U'),('V'),('W'),('X'),('Y'),
                  ('Z')
           )d(Chr)
ORDER BY a.Chr, b.Chr, c.Chr, d.Chr;

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Posted Monday, October 08, 2012 6:11 AM

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in query trying for 1000,
but i need max.

if it is more than 36*36*36*36, it helps me a lot...

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Posted Monday, October 08, 2012 6:16 AM

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Thank U Boss,

It is looking great...

but i need every record should have a numeric and alpabet,

in present code, some records are only alphabetic....

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Posted Monday, October 08, 2012 6:20 AM

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Skanda (10/8/2012)

Here's a TSQL equivalent of the Oracle CTE:

SELECT 
	n, 
	CHAR(n + CASE WHEN n < 10 THEN 48 ELSE 55 END)
FROM (SELECT TOP(36) n = ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT NULL))-1 FROM sys.columns a, sys.columns b) t
ORDER BY n

Can you figure it out from here?

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