Re: reversion? Recursion question

Brad Hilton wrote :
> On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 15:41, Patrick Hatcher wrote:
> > Hello,
> > For lack of a better title, I need to a reverse recursion. Where I have
> > the parent ID, but then I need to find all it's children, grandchildren,
> > great-grandchildern, etc for the parent-id. I guess this would be like a
> > directory and all its sub-directories.
>
> You may want to look at another way of doing this. Joe Celko gives an
> example of "nested sets" which allows you to select tree-like sets from
> your database very efficiently. His book "SQL for Smarties" has a
> chapter on this, or google for "celko sql tree" and you'll find some
> articles he's written on it. Here's a link to one:
> http://www.intelligententerprise.com/001020/celko.shtml.

Thanks for that! It's going to improve my life no end!

David.
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