Malcolm Greene wrote:
> I have have table with 2 columns: cParent and cChild. cParent may
> be a child of other cParents. Likewise cChild may be a cParent to
> other children.
> Is there a simple SQL query I can use to produce a list of all
> cParent children through an arbitary depth?
> Is there a way to capture the depth of each child so I could
> visually indent parent/child hierarchies?
> What happens if I have a circular reference, eg. a grandchild
> that has its top parent as a child? (in theory this shouldn't
> happen with my data, but ....)
> Thank you,
> Malcolm


Sounds like a treeview kind of scenario, Malcolm.  I don't have a simple 
answer for you, but I know Doug Hennig had done some articles years ago 
in FoxTalk on hierarchial treeviews, iirc.  Not sure if you have access 
to the old issues?



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