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Recursive SQL Stored Procedure
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I have a hierarchal data structure and the attached code will show a list of all the items linked to their parent. However I want to be able to 'walk' up the table as I will know the id I'm att BUT need to know the id's of it's parent etc upto the root.
Can someone help or explain how to do this. Thanks!
Can someone help or explain how to do this. Thanks!
With Breadcrumb( id, parentid, description) as
(
SELECT id, parentid, Description
FROM RadMenu
--where parentid IS NOT NULL
)
select parentid, id, description
from breadcrumb
order by parentid
Here's some of the data, filtered to show 1 example:
id parentid Description
57 NULL Adaptors
74 57 CompactFlash to IDE
75 57 CompactFlash to SATA
76 57 PCMCIA to CompactFlash
978 57 CFast to SATA
275 74 IDE to 1 CompactFlash Slot
525 74 IDE to 2 CompactFlash Slots
555 74 IDE to 1 CompactFlash Slot
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