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.

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        Dan Nelson
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