Tuesday 23 October 2012

SQL Lotter number selector

Just a bit of fun with SQL

WITH
    L0 AS (SELECT 0 AS C UNION ALL SELECT 0),
    L1 AS (SELECT 0 AS C FROM L0 AS A CROSS JOIN L0 AS B),
    L2 AS (SELECT 0 AS C FROM L1 AS A CROSS JOIN L1 AS B),
    L3 AS (SELECT 0 AS C FROM L2 AS A CROSS JOIN L2 AS B),
    Nums AS (SELECT TOP(49) ROW_NUMBER()
       OVER(ORDER BY (SELECT 0)) AS n FROM L3 ORDER BY n),
    Choice AS (SELECT TOP(6) n FROM Nums ORDER BY CHECKSUM(NEWID()))
SELECT STUFF( (SELECT ',' + CAST(n AS VARCHAR(10)) AS [text()]
FROM Choice ORDER BY n
FOR XML PATH('')), 1, 1, '')