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MS SQL join complex subquery

I am trying to combine my query into a join to bring back some records.

Here is the first part of my query, this does exactly what I want and returns the latest record from this result set as each one is linked to the other as show below.

pkSDSID   fkSDSID
 50605     NULL
 88377     50605
 90602     88377
 90616     90602

This query returns 90616 from the results.

DECLARE @LatestSDS INT

with tree as (
   SELECT pkSDSID, fkSDSID
   FROM tblSDS
   WHERE pkSDSID = 50605

   UNION ALL

   SELECT t1.pkSDSID, t1.fkSDSID
   FROM tblSDS t1
   JOIN tree p ON p.pkSDSID = t1.fkSDSID
)

SELECT TOP 1 @LatestSDS = pkSDSID FROM tree ORDER BY pkSDSID DESC

SELECT @LatestSDS

This is fine if I have one record I want to find but what I'm now stuck on his how to do this for multiple records.

I was wondering if I could inner join this somehow using it as a sub query of my main query but I cant seem to find a way to get it to work.

What I would like is to use the pkSDSID like above which is 50605 but use a column of a table and get the LastestSDS for each record.

I hope this makes sense I'm not all that great with SQL and I just don't know where to go from here.

Is this possible?

I appreciate all help. Thank you.
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