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Help writing SQL query

From: barry <bbulsara23_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 6 Dec 2004 03:44:57 -0800
Message-ID: <747f1dec.0412060344.7116e3fb@posting.google.com>


Hi, I have inherited some information from an Access database in a terrible structure . All I want an SQL query, any version or Oracle, to return anyone in the same family as Mary, or Bob or, to Brian, or Beatrice, whoever...

ie, SELECT personName

      FROM family
       WHERE IN SAME FAMILY AS 'Brian'

would return Mary, Bob, Joan, Brian, Peter, Claudine, Bruce, and Francis but no one else.

SELECT *

      FROM personName
       WHERE IN SAME FAMILY AS 'Claudine'

should return the same results

SELECT *

      FROM personName
       WHERE IN SAME FAMILY AS 'Dominic'

should return Dominic and William and no one else.

Can you help ? Sample family data is below.

Thank you
Barry

CREATE TABLE family(familymember1 VARCHAR2(20),familymember2 VARCHAR2(20)); INSERT INTO family(familymember1,familymember2)  VALUES('Mary','Bob');
INSERT INTO family(familymember1,familymember2)  VALUES('Mary','Joan');
INSERT INTO family(familymember1,familymember2)  VALUES('Brian','Mary');
INSERT INTO family(familymember1,familymember2)  VALUES('Peter','Brian');
INSERT INTO family(familymember1,familymember2)  VALUES('Peter','Mary');
INSERT INTO family(familymember1,familymember2)  VALUES('Mary','Brian');
INSERT INTO family(familymember1,familymember2)  VALUES('Brian','Claudine');
INSERT INTO family(familymember1,familymember2)  VALUES('Claudine','Bruce');
INSERT INTO family(familymember1,familymember2)  VALUES('Francis','Bruce');

INSERT INTO family(familymember1,familymember2)  VALUES('John Francois','Barbara');
INSERT INTO family(familymember1,familymember2)  VALUES('John Francois','Beatrice');
INSERT INTO family(familymember1,familymember2)  VALUES('Jean-Claude','Barbara');

INSERT INTO family(familymember1,familymember2)  VALUES('Dominic','William');

INSERT INTO family(familymember1,familymember2)  VALUES('Elizabeth','Margaret');
INSERT INTO family(familymember1,familymember2)  VALUES('Elizabeth','Philip');
INSERT INTO family(familymember1,familymember2)  VALUES('Fergie','Philip'); Received on Mon Dec 06 2004 - 05:44:57 CST

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