how to retrieve a hierarchical structure

2002-02-18 Thread Wakan
Hi, can someone suggest the best way to perform a query that extract from a category table all the structure, like a filesystem? For example, I've a table of categorie like this: ID namedescr ID_parent and I've assigned -1 to the root category. I'd like to draw a directory-like

Re: how to retrieve a hierarchical structure

2002-02-18 Thread Antoine
Hi, A simple way is to make a recursive search by starting from the root, and collecting all ID's from each layer. You need only one query per layer, not one per node. It looks like this : - start from the desired directory : SELECT * FROM table WHERE id_parent IN (8) - say it returns

RE: how to retrieve a hierarchical structure

2002-02-18 Thread Johnny Withers
] p. 601.853.0211 c. 601.209.4985 -Original Message- From: Wakan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 10:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how to retrieve a hierarchical structure Hi, can someone suggest the best way to perform a query that extract from