Hi Steve,
Some clues allow more than one interpretation:
"The green office was to the left of the white office." - is that directly to the left (adjacent) or somewhere to the left?
"Sue has the first office." - is that the leftmost or the rightmost office?
I've made the assumption that the green and left office need not be directly adjacent, and the the first office is the leftmost office. With those assumptions, there are a total of six solutions to the problem. In two, Sue has the Dual 19" LCDs. Andy gets them in three, and the last solution has Brian working the dual 19" LCDs.
Of course, I didn't work this out for mysself. This is a SQL Server forum, after all!!
CREATE
VIEW Carthesian
AS
SELECT *
FROM (SELECT 1 UNION ALL
SELECT 2 UNION ALL
SELECT 3 UNION ALL
SELECT 4 UNION ALL
SELECT 5) AS Offices(Office)
CROSS JOIN (SELECT 'Brian' UNION ALL
SELECT 'Steve' UNION ALL
SELECT 'Andy' UNION ALL
SELECT 'Sue' UNION ALL
SELECT 'Kevin') AS Persons(Person)
CROSS JOIN (SELECT 'red' UNION ALL
SELECT 'green' UNION ALL
SELECT 'white' UNION ALL
SELECT 'yellow' UNION ALL
SELECT 'blue') AS Colors(Color)
CROSS JOIN (SELECT 'Prius' UNION ALL
SELECT 'Accord' UNION ALL
SELECT 'Caravan' UNION ALL
SELECT 'Corvette' UNION ALL
SELECT 'Suburban') AS Cars(Car)
CROSS JOIN (SELECT 'iced tea' UNION ALL
SELECT 'coffee' UNION ALL
SELECT 'Red Bull' UNION ALL
SELECT 'beer' UNION ALL
SELECT 'Mountain Dew') AS Drinks(Drink)
CROSS JOIN (SELECT '17" CRT' UNION ALL
SELECT '15" CRT' UNION ALL
SELECT '15" LCD' UNION ALL
SELECT '17" LCD' UNION ALL
SELECT 'dual 19" LCDs') AS Monitors(Monitor)
go
CREATE VIEW Combinations
AS
SELECT *
FROM Carthesian
WHERE NOT (Person = 'Brian' AND Color <> 'red') -- Brian had the red office.
AND NOT (Person = 'Steve' AND Monitor <> '17" CRT') -- Steve had a 17" CRT on his desk.
AND NOT (Person = 'Andy' AND Drink <> 'iced tea') -- Andy liked to drink iced tea.
AND NOT (Color = 'green' AND Drink <> 'coffee') -- The person with the green office drinks coffee.
AND NOT (Car = 'Prius' AND Monitor <> '15" CRT') -- The person who drove a Prius had a 15" CRT.
AND NOT (Office = 3 AND Drink <> 'Red Bull') -- The person in the middle office drinks Red Bull.
AND NOT (Color = 'yellow' AND Car <> 'Accord') -- The person with the yellow office drove an Accord.
AND NOT (Office = 1 AND Person <> 'Sue') -- Sue has the first office.
AND NOT (Car = 'Corvette' AND Drink <> 'beer') -- The Corvette driver drinks beer.
AND NOT (Person = 'Sue' AND Color <> 'blue') -- Sue has the blue office.
AND NOT (Person = 'Kevin' AND Car <> 'Suburban') -- Kevin drives a Suburban.
go
CREATE VIEW Solution
AS
SELECT c1.Office AS Office_1, c1.Person AS Person_1, c1.Color AS Color_1, c1.Car AS Car_1, c1.Drink AS Drink_1, c1.Monitor AS Monitor_1,
c2.Office AS Office_2, c2.Person AS Person_2, c2.Color AS Color_2, c2.Car AS Car_2, c2.Drink AS Drink_2, c2.Monitor AS Monitor_2,
c3.Office AS Office_3, c3.Person AS Person_3, c3.Color AS Color_3, c3.Car AS Car_3, c3.Drink AS Drink_3, c3.Monitor AS Monitor_3,
c4.Office AS Office_4, c4.Person AS Person_4, c4.Color AS Color_4, c4.Car AS Car_4, c4.Drink AS Drink_4, c4.Monitor AS Monitor_4,
c5.Office AS Office_5, c5.Person AS Person_5, c5.Color AS Color_5, c5.Car AS Car_5, c5.Drink AS Drink_5, c5.Monitor AS Monitor_5
FROM Combinations AS c1
JOIN Combinations AS c2
ON c2.Person <> c1.Person
AND c2.Color <> c1.Color
AND c2.Car <> c1.Car
AND c2.Drink <> c1.Drink
AND c2.Monitor <> c1.Monitor
JOIN Combinations AS c3
ON c3.Person <> c1.Person
AND c3.Person <> c2.Person
AND c3.Color <> c1.Color
AND c3.Color <> c2.Color
AND c3.Car <> c1.Car
AND c3.Car <> c2.Car
AND c3.Drink <> c1.Drink
AND c3.Drink <> c2.Drink
AND c3.Monitor <> c1.Monitor
AND c3.Monitor <> c2.Monitor
JOIN Combinations AS c4
ON c4.Person <> c1.Person
AND c4.Person <> c2.Person
AND c4.Person <> c3.Person
AND c4.Color <> c1.Color
AND c4.Color <> c2.Color
AND c4.Color <> c3.Color
AND c4.Car <> c1.Car
AND c4.Car <> c2.Car
AND c4.Car <> c3.Car
AND c4.Drink <> c1.Drink
AND c4.Drink <> c2.Drink
AND c4.Drink <> c3.Drink
AND c4.Monitor <> c1.Monitor
AND c4.Monitor <> c2.Monitor
AND c4.Monitor <> c3.Monitor
JOIN Combinations AS c5
ON c5.Person <> c1.Person
AND c5.Person <> c2.Person
AND c5.Person <> c3.Person
AND c5.Person <> c4.Person
AND c5.Color <> c1.Color
AND c5.Color <> c2.Color
AND c5.Color <> c3.Color
AND c5.Color <> c4.Color
AND c5.Car <> c1.Car
AND c5.Car <> c2.Car
AND c5.Car <> c3.Car
AND c5.Car <> c4.Car
AND c5.Drink <> c1.Drink
AND c5.Drink <> c2.Drink
AND c5.Drink <> c3.Drink
AND c5.Drink <> c4.Drink
AND c5.Monitor <> c1.Monitor
AND c5.Monitor <> c2.Monitor
AND c5.Monitor <> c3.Monitor
AND c5.Monitor <> c4.Monitor
WHERE c1.Office = 1
AND c2.Office = 2
AND c3.Office = 3
AND c4.Office = 4
AND c5.Office = 5
-- The green office was to the left of the white office.
AND CASE 'white'
WHEN c1.Color THEN 'F'
WHEN c2.Color THEN CASE WHEN 'green' IN (c1.Color) THEN 'T' ELSE 'F' END
WHEN c3.Color THEN CASE WHEN 'green' IN (c1.Color, c2.Color) THEN 'T' ELSE 'F' END
WHEN c4.Color THEN CASE WHEN 'green' IN (c1.Color, c2.Color, c3.Color) THEN 'T' ELSE 'F' END
WHEN c5.Color THEN 'T'
END = 'T'
--The person who drives the Caravan has an office next to the person who has the 15" LCD.
AND CASE 'Caravan'
WHEN c1.Car THEN CASE WHEN '15" LCD' IN (c2.Monitor) THEN 'T' ELSE 'F' END
WHEN c2.Car THEN CASE WHEN '15" LCD' IN (c1.Monitor, c3.Monitor) THEN 'T' ELSE 'F' END
WHEN c3.Car THEN CASE WHEN '15" LCD' IN (c2.Monitor, c4.Monitor) THEN 'T' ELSE 'F' END
WHEN c4.Car THEN CASE WHEN '15" LCD' IN (c3.Monitor, c5.Monitor) THEN 'T' ELSE 'F' END
WHEN c5.Car THEN CASE WHEN '15" LCD' IN (c4.Monitor) THEN 'T' ELSE 'F' END
END = 'T'
--The person who has the 17" LCD sits next to the person who drives an Accord.
AND CASE '17" LCD'
WHEN c1.Monitor THEN CASE WHEN 'Accord' IN (c2.Car) THEN 'T' ELSE 'F' END
WHEN c2.Monitor THEN CASE WHEN 'Accord' IN (c1.Car, c3.Car) THEN 'T' ELSE 'F' END
WHEN c3.Monitor THEN CASE WHEN 'Accord' IN (c2.Car, c4.Car) THEN 'T' ELSE 'F' END
WHEN c4.Monitor THEN CASE WHEN 'Accord' IN (c3.Car, c5.Car) THEN 'T' ELSE 'F' END
WHEN c5.Monitor THEN CASE WHEN 'Accord' IN (c4.Car) THEN 'T' ELSE 'F' END
END = 'T'
--The person who drives a Caravan sits next to the person who drinks Mountain Dew.
AND CASE 'Caravan'
WHEN c1.Car THEN CASE WHEN 'Mountain Dew' IN (c2.Drink) THEN 'T' ELSE 'F' END
WHEN c2.Car THEN CASE WHEN 'Mountain Dew' IN (c1.Drink, c3.Drink) THEN 'T' ELSE 'F' END
WHEN c3.Car THEN CASE WHEN 'Mountain Dew' IN (c2.Drink, c4.Drink) THEN 'T' ELSE 'F' END
WHEN c4.Car THEN CASE WHEN 'Mountain Dew' IN (c3.Drink, c5.Drink) THEN 'T' ELSE 'F' END
WHEN c5.Car THEN CASE WHEN 'Mountain Dew' IN (c4.Drink) THEN 'T' ELSE 'F' END
END = 'T'
go
SELECT * FROM Solution
go
DROP VIEW Solution
DROP VIEW Combinations
DROP VIEW Carthesian
go
(I hope the formatting comes out okay....)