The Excel Column Name assigment problem

Posted by Peter Larsson on SQL Team See other posts from SQL Team or by Peter Larsson
Published on Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:45:14 GMT Indexed on 2010/04/28 13:54 UTC
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Here is a generic algorithm to get the Excel column name according to it's position. By changing the @Base parameter, you can do this for any sequence according to same style as Excel.

DECLARE @Value INT = 8839,
        @Base TINYINT = 26
 
;WITH cteSequence(Value, Delta, Quote, Base, Chr)
AS (
    SELECT  CAST(@Value AS INT) AS Value,
            CAST(1 AS INT) AS Delta,
            CAST(@Base AS INT) AS Quote,
            CAST(@Base AS INT) AS Base,
            CHAR(65 +(@Value - 1) % @Base) AS Chr
 
    UNION ALL
 
    SELECT  Value AS Value,
            Quote AS Delta,
            26 * Quote AS Quote,
            Base AS Base,
            CHAR(65 +((Value - Delta)/ Quote - 1) % Base) AS Chr
    FROM    cteSequence
    WHERE   CHAR(65 +((Value - Delta)/ Quote - 1) % Base) <> '@'
)
SELECT  CAST(Msg AS VARCHAR(MAX))
FROM    (
            SELECT        '' + Chr
            FROM        cteSequence
            ORDER BY    Delta DESC
            FOR XML        PATH('')
        ) AS x(Msg)
 

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