[Development Simply Put] How To Apply Recursive SQL Selections On Hierarchical Data
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Sometimes we work on systems where a hierarchical data structure exists on some entities like employees and their managers. Both employees and managers can be called employees but there is a self join relation between them as each employee must have a manager. We all faced the situation when we need to get the info about each employee and his/her direct manager. At this point we used to join between the employees (child) table and itself (parent) on the condition that the parent id of the child is equal to the id of the parent. This is good. But, what about if we need to get the hierarchical tree of managers of a certain employee not just his direct manager. It seems as we just need to the same join but more than one time till we are up all the way to the head manager. This is somehow logical but how can we do this number of joins and we don't know the number of levels up to the head manager?!!! If you want to know more, you can read this article.
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[Development Simply Put] How To Apply Recursive SQL Selections On Hierarchical Data
- 4. Sometimes we work on systems where a hierarchical data structure exists on some entities like employees and their managers. Both employees and managers can be called employees but there is a self join relation between them as each employee must have a manager. We all faced the situation when we need to get the info about each employee and his/her direct manager. At this point we used to join between the employees (child) table and itself (parent) on the condition that the parent id of the child is equal to the id of the parent. This is good. But, what about if we need to get the hierarchical tree of managers of a certain employee not just his direct manager. It seems as we just need to the same join but more than one time till we are up all the way to the head manager. This is somehow logical but how can we do this number of joins and we don't know the number of levels up to the head manager?!!! If you want to know more, you can read this article. [Development Simply Put] How To Apply Recursive SQL Selections On Hierarchical Data "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" -Albert Einstein
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