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MS SQL - How do I fetch the same column twice from one table?

Hi,

I have two tables. One has a full list of IDs with their descriptions, the other lists the relationship between the IDs. I realise this sounds a little cryptic so I'll try and illustrate it in the code section.

What I need to do is have a full list of IDs with their parent and child descriptions...see desired result table in the coding section.

Table 1:
ID     Descr
1      James
2      Philip
3      Peter
4      Allan
 
Table 2:
ID     ChildID
1      2
1      3
2      NULL
3      4
4      NULL
 
Desired Result:
ID    ParentDescr     ChildDescr
1     James               Philip
1     James               Peter
2     Philip                 NULL
3     Peter                 Allan
4     Allan                 NULL

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Kevin Cross

Something like this should work:

select p.ID, p.Descr AS ParentDescr, c.Descr AS ChildDescr
from Table1 p
inner join Table2 pc ON pc.ID = p.ID
left join Table1 c ON pc.ChildID = c.ID

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joshgeake

ASKER

thanks, my issue was how to query the same table twice for the descriptions of the child and parent IDs but it looks like this sorts it - i'll comment tomorrow when i'm back in the office.

thanks again!

pssandhu

Select c.ID, C.Desc ParentDescr, m.ChildID, m.Descr as ChildDescr
From Table1 c INNER JOIN (
Select a.ID, a.ChildID, t.Descr
From Table1 t INNER JOIN Table2 d
ON t.ID = ChildID
Where ChildID IS NOT NULL) as m
ON c.ID = m.Id

pssandhu

I am really slow today... :-)

Racim BOUDJAKDJI

Alternatively...Something like this should work...
select ALL.*
from
(
select A.id, A.Descr as ParentDescr, C.Descr as ChildDescr from table1 A inner join table2 B on A.id = B.id inner join table1 C on B.ChildID = C.id where B.ChildID is not null
union all
select A.id, A.Descr, NULL from table1 A inner join table2 B on A.id = B.id where B.ChildID is null
) ALL
order by ALL.id

HTH

joshgeake

ASKER

Right i'm still a little stuck, see the code snippet...

It looks like its listing all part groups for every product when what I want it to do is only list its relevent group. Each part can be in a number of product groups but it's usually 1. Thus it will then list the child group.

Any ideas?

SELECT     epar.part AS PartCode, p.prod_group, c.prod_group AS child_group, p.descr AS ParentDescr, c.descr AS ChildDescr
FROM         epar LEFT OUTER JOIN
                      wgrp_part ON epar.part = wgrp_part.part INNER JOIN
                      wgrp AS p ON wgrp_part.prod_group = p.prod_group INNER JOIN
                      wgrp_sgrp AS pc ON pc.Prod_group = p.prod_group LEFT OUTER JOIN
                      wgrp AS c ON pc.sub_group = c.prod_group
WHERE     (c.descr IS NOT NULL)
ORDER BY epar.part

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joshgeake

ASKER

by the way...
epar - lists all parts.
wgrp_part - lists all parts and their prod_groups.
wgrp_sgrp - lists all sub_groups and their respective prod_group.
wgrp - lists all prod_groups and sub_groups descriptions.

pssandhu

Sorry, but I am a little confused. Can you please post some sample data from the tables we can work with?
P.

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pssandhu

I would recommend accepting mvisa's answer since it was answered based on what was requested.
P.