Thank you. I was trying too long to do this in SQL.

> -----Oryginalna wiadomość-----
> Od: Dan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Wysłano: 22 października 2001 23:38
> Do: Daniel _a_
> DW: Lista MySQL
> Temat: Re: Tree in SQL
>
>
> In the last episode (Oct 22), Daniel _a_ said:
> > I have a table in database which describes tree structure of
> article groups.
> > In this table I have:
> > 1. group_id - group identifier
> > 2. parent_group_id - identifier of parent group
> > I need to select history, from top to wanted group.
> > I can't change the database design and ofcourse this is MySQL
> 3.23 database.
> > Can somebody help me ?
>
> You'll have to do multiple selects.  Loop:
>
> select parent_group_id from table where group_id = :myid
> :myid = parent_group_id
>
> Stop when myid == the ID of the top of the tree.
>
> --
>       Dan Nelson
>       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>


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