recursive select statement
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Hey guys,
I have a pretty easy one for you experts. I have a table with this structure:
idint
namenvarchar(50)
parent_idint
I want to get a list of all the names and concatenate the names when the parent_id = the id of a previous record all the way until the parent_id is equal to 0 (0 meaning you are at the root).
What is the query statement to get such a result set?
Thank you.
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So you basically want a list of who person a manages all nicely concatenated together like
Fred
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Sorry used the tab key
Like
Fred John, Bert, Andy
Bert Andy
Is that the sort of thing you want ?
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Correct, in this instance they are geographically regions.
so
ID name parent id
204Arizona 9
463Greater Phoenix Area204
474Northern Arizona 204
478Southern Arizona 204
481Tucson Area 204
483Western Arizona 204
which will produce a result set of Tucson Area, Arizona, etc...
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try this
WITH CTE AS (SELECT id,name,parent_id, 1 AS Level, CAST(name AS VARCHAR(MAX)) AS FullPath
FROM mytable
WHERE parent_id = 0
UNION ALL
SELECT t.id,t.name,t.parent_id, c.Level+1, CAST(t.name AS VARCHAR(MAX)) +',' + c.FullPath
FROM mytable t
INNER JOIN CTE c ON c.id=t.parent_id
)
SELECT FullPath
FROM CTE
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That did it. Now to figure out and understand just exactly what you did. I love learning new stuff. Thank you.
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Or obviously if you wanted to reverse the data so top level name first you could use
WITH CTE AS (
SELECT id,name,parent_id, 1 AS Level, CAST(name AS VARCHAR(MAX)) AS FullPath
FROM mytable
WHERE parent_id = 0
UNION ALL
SELECT t.id,t.name,t.parent_id, c.Level+1, c.FullPath + ',' + CAST(t.name AS VARCHAR(MAX))
FROM mytable t
INNER JOIN CTE c ON c.id=t.parent_id
)
SELECT Name, FullPath
FROM CTE
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