I need to be able to return a list of all children given a parent Id at all levels using SQL.
The table looks something like this:
ID ParentId Name
---------------------------------------
1 null Root
2 1 Child of Root
3 2 Child of Child of Root
Give an Id of '1', how would I return the entire list...? There is no limitation on the depth of the nesting either...
Thanks,
Kieron
To get all children for a given @ParentId
stored in that manner you could use a recursive CTE.
declare @ParentId int
--set @ParentId = 1
;WITH T AS
(
select 1 AS ID,null AS ParentId, 'Root' as [Name] union all
select 2,1,'Child of Root' union all
select 3,2,'Child of Child of Root'
),
cte AS
(
SELECT ID, ParentId, Name
FROM T
WHERE ParentId = @ParentId OR (ParentId IS NULL AND @ParentId IS NULL)
UNION ALL
SELECT T.ID, T.ParentId, T.Name
FROM T
JOIN cte c ON c.ID = T.ParentId
)
SELECT ID, ParentId, Name
FROM cte
OPTION (MAXRECURSION 0)