603_Consecutive Available Seats
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Several friends at a cinema ticket office would like to reserve consecutive available seats. Can you help to query all the consecutive available seats order by the seat_id using the following cinema
table?
| seat_id | free |
|---------|------|
| 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 |
| 3 | 1 |
| 4 | 1 |
| 5 | 1 |
Your query should return the following result for the sample case above.
| seat_id |
|---------|
| 3 |
| 4 |
| 5 |
Note:
The seat_id is an auto increment int, and free is bool ('1' means free, and '0' means occupied.).
Consecutive available seats are more than 2(inclusive) seats consecutively available.
Solution 1: Using Join
SELECT distinct c1.seat_id
FROM cinema c1
JOIN cinema c2 ON abs(c1.seat_id - c2.seat_id) = 1 and c1.free = 1 and c2.free = 1
ORDER BY c1.seat_id;
Solution 2: Using subquery
SELECT C1.seat_id
FROM cinema C1
WHERE C1.free=1 and
(
C1.seat_id+1 in (select seat_id from cinema where free=1)
or
C1.seat_id-1 in (select seat_id from cinema where free=1)
)
ORDER BY C1.seat_id;
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