Deleting from a table with a hierarchyid

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Deleting from a table with a hierarchyid

keith.west

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January 13, 2009 at 2:02 pm

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I am developing scripts and procs to manage a table with a hierarchyid data type. When deleting records from this table (deleting hierarchy nodes), my understanding is that the children will be orphaned if I don't update the hierarchyid columns for all of the descendants. Is there a standard way of doing this. I can't find any documentation on this. It looks like most of the examples leave the orphaned children.
Any help or input is greatly appreciated.
Keith

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baabhu SSCertifiable Points: 6205 More actions · Answer 1

You can use a deleted flag in the table, and mark it as deleted. Rather than physical deletion of the records rows can be soft deleted.

Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 2

@baabhu - You do realize this thread is almost 3 years old?

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004290 More actions · Answer 3

In that case, I wonder if the OP ever got an answer from somewhere?

Also... I don't believe you can just "soft delete" when the HierarchyID is being used.

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