Re: Puzzles on SQL/Oracle

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 09:29:47 -0800
Message-ID: <1166894984.332732@bubbleator.drizzle.com>

Rene Nyffenegger wrote:
> On 2006-12-23, nirav <shivam71_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>> Hello,
>>
>> How about Games Programming like chess programming or Tic-tac-Toe or
>> other games etc using SQL or Pl/SQL...has this been done?? I mean some
>> questions like how to find out how many different moves are possible
>> for next step in Chess or Tic Tac Toe etc is this something someone has
>> come across??

>
>
> I have once tried to create a sudoku solver in PL/SQL:
> http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/blog/2005/september/6.html
>
> Unfortunately, it has a bug, but still...
>
> Regards

Try mine:
http://www.psoug.org/sudoku.html

Though I'll not guarantee it doesn't have a flaw or twenty. <g>

And it has never seen even two seconds of optimization. Still it handles the newspaper puzzles subsecond.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org

Received on Sat Dec 23 2006 - 11:29:47 CST