Mary is a teacher in a middle school and she has a table seat
storing students' names and their corresponding seat ids.
The column id is continuous increment.
Mary wants to change seats for the adjacent students.
Can you write a SQL query to output the result for Mary?
+---------+---------+ | id | student | +---------+---------+ | 1 | Abbot | | 2 | Doris | | 3 | Emerson | | 4 | Green | | 5 | Jeames | +---------+---------+
For the sample input, the output is:
+---------+---------+ | id | student | +---------+---------+ | 1 | Doris | | 2 | Abbot | | 3 | Green | | 4 | Emerson | | 5 | Jeames | +---------+---------+
Note:
If the number of students is odd, there is no need to change the last one's seat.
# Write your MySQL query statement below SELECT s.id, s.student FROM ( SELECT id - 1 AS id, student FROM seat WHERE (id % 2 = 0) UNION SELECT (CASE WHEN (cnt%2=1) AND id=cnt THEN id ELSE id + 1 END) AS id, student FROM seat, (select count(*) as cnt from seat) as seatcnt WHERE (id % 2 = 1) ) s GROUP BY s.id ASC