Re: Recursive Query

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:58:26 +0000, Ray wrote:

[...]

> select c1.customer_id, c1.customer_name, c1.primary_id,
> --add the primary name recursively
> (select customer_name from customer where customer_id=c1.primary_id)
> primary_name,
> c1.primary_flag, c1.active_flag, c1.last_update_id,
> c1.last_update_date
> from customer c1, customer c2
> group by c1.customer_id
>
> This solution worked for me. I don't know if this is just Sybase
> allowing me to do this or is it ANSI SQL legal. Anyway it works.
>

I dont think your query is illegal, but you should definitely rewrite it. What good does customer c2 (other than exercising your db :-) do? Try removing the group by clause and see what happens, then remove customer c2 and see what happens then.

/Lennart

[...] Received on Wed Mar 19 2003 - 16:28:25 CST