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| Date: | 11/10/05 |
| Author: | Chris Farmer |
| URL: | n/a |
| Comments: | 0 |
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| Score: |  (2.89 in 27 votes) |
select
CASE (a.aa * 10 + b.bb)
WHEN 0 THEN 'No more bottle of beer on the wall, no more bottles of beer. ' ||
'Go to the store and buy some more, 99 bottles of beer on the wall.'
WHEN 1 THEN '1 bottle of beer on the wall, 1 bottle of beer. ' ||
'Take one down and pass it around, no more bottles of beer on the wall.'
WHEN 2 THEN '2 bottles of beer on the wall, 2 bottles of beer. ' ||
'Take one down and pass it around, 1 bottle of beer on the wall.'
ELSE
to_char(a.aa * 10 + b.bb) || ' bottles of beer on the wall, ' ||
to_char(a.aa * 10 + b.bb) || ' bottles of beer. ' ||
'Take one down and pass it around, ' ||
to_char((a.aa * 10 + b.bb)-1) || ' bottles of beer on the wall.'
END
from
(select 0 aa from dual
union select 1 from dual
union select 2 from dual
union select 3 from dual
union select 4 from dual
union select 5 from dual
union select 6 from dual
union select 7 from dual
union select 8 from dual
union select 9 from dual ) a,
(select 0 bb from dual
union select 1 from dual
union select 2 from dual
union select 3 from dual
union select 4 from dual
union select 5 from dual
union select 6 from dual
union select 7 from dual
union select 8 from dual
union select 9 from dual ) b
order by a.aa desc, b.bb desc
/
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Alternative Versions
| Version | Author | Date | Comments | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle 9i+ hierarchical query | Christoph Linder | 11/21/07 | 0 | |
| DB2 / ANSI | Kent Olsen | 11/29/05 | 1 | |
| MS SQL 2000 | David Teviotdale | 09/07/05 | 4 | |
| MS-Transact-SQL 8.00 | Karl | 07/06/05 | 0 | |
| MS SQL 2005 | Johan Åhlén | 09/28/09 | 1 | |
| CROSS JOIN - UNPIVOT - SQL SERVER 2008 | Nick Jacobsen | 09/18/11 | 0 | |
| standard version | Rob van de Pol | 04/20/05 | 0 | |
| Oracle, DBA Version | Thomas Rein | 02/03/07 | 0 | |
| DB2, no redundancy, with recursion | Joachim Banzhaf | 05/17/06 | 0 | |
| Produces the exact lyrics, ORACLE | Ernst Madsen | 09/23/05 | 0 | |
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