1623. All Valid Triplets That Can Represent a Country 🔒

Description

Table: SchoolA

+---------------+---------+
| Column Name   | Type    |
+---------------+---------+
| student_id    | int     |
| student_name  | varchar |
+---------------+---------+
student_id is the column with unique values for this table.
Each row of this table contains the name and the id of a student in school A.
All student_name are distinct.

 

Table: SchoolB

+---------------+---------+
| Column Name   | Type    |
+---------------+---------+
| student_id    | int     |
| student_name  | varchar |
+---------------+---------+
student_id is the column with unique values for this table.
Each row of this table contains the name and the id of a student in school B.
All student_name are distinct.

 

Table: SchoolC

+---------------+---------+
| Column Name   | Type    |
+---------------+---------+
| student_id    | int     |
| student_name  | varchar |
+---------------+---------+
student_id is the column with unique values for this table.
Each row of this table contains the name and the id of a student in school C.
All student_name are distinct.

 

There is a country with three schools, where each student is enrolled in exactly one school. The country is joining a competition and wants to select one student from each school to represent the country such that:

• member_A is selected from SchoolA,
• member_B is selected from SchoolB,
• member_C is selected from SchoolC, and
• The selected students' names and IDs are pairwise distinct (i.e. no two students share the same name, and no two students share the same ID).

Write a solution to find all the possible triplets representing the country under the given constraints.

Return the result table in any order.

The result format is in the following example.

 

Example 1:

Input: 
SchoolA table:
+------------+--------------+
| student_id | student_name |
+------------+--------------+
| 1          | Alice        |
| 2          | Bob          |
+------------+--------------+
SchoolB table:
+------------+--------------+
| student_id | student_name |
+------------+--------------+
| 3          | Tom          |
+------------+--------------+
SchoolC table:
+------------+--------------+
| student_id | student_name |
+------------+--------------+
| 3          | Tom          |
| 2          | Jerry        |
| 10         | Alice        |
+------------+--------------+
Output: 
+----------+----------+----------+
| member_A | member_B | member_C |
+----------+----------+----------+
| Alice    | Tom      | Jerry    |
| Bob      | Tom      | Alice    |
+----------+----------+----------+
Explanation: 
Let us see all the possible triplets.
- (Alice, Tom, Tom) --> Rejected because member_B and member_C have the same name and the same ID.
- (Alice, Tom, Jerry) --> Valid triplet.
- (Alice, Tom, Alice) --> Rejected because member_A and member_C have the same name.
- (Bob, Tom, Tom) --> Rejected because member_B and member_C have the same name and the same ID.
- (Bob, Tom, Jerry) --> Rejected because member_A and member_C have the same ID.
- (Bob, Tom, Alice) --> Valid triplet.

Solutions

Solution 1

MySQL

# Write your MySQL query statement below
SELECT
    a.student_name AS member_A,
    b.student_name AS member_B,
    c.student_name AS member_C
FROM
    SchoolA AS a,
    SchoolB AS b,
    SchoolC AS c
WHERE
    a.student_name != b.student_name
    AND a.student_name != c.student_name
    AND b.student_name != c.student_name
    AND a.student_id != b.student_id
    AND a.student_id != c.student_id
    AND b.student_id != c.student_id;

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