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Is it possible to select across multiple rows into the same result?

 
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Hello,

I will need to be querying a database schema which models an object hierarchy tree, with a single table containing every parent-child relationship in the tree. So to find the TypeA children of a specific parent you'd do something like

SELECT * FROM TypeA, relationships WHERE relationships.parentid = <parentid> AND relationships.childid = TypeA.id

That's straightforward enough, but what if you're trying to find grandchildren? Or a single query involving multiple different types (tables) of children? That would mean that multiple rows of "relationships.childid" would be used for the same row in the result set. Is there any way to do this without using either multiple seperate queries or nested queries.

Changing the table design of the schema is not an option, unfortunately, though it is possible to add new tables and views.

Thank you,
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Yuriy,
You can use the "union" operator to separate different numbers of joins. While the database still has to execute the parts of the query, it is only one database round trip. This only works if you know how many levels you can have though. It may be more efficient to do the separate queries.
 
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All right, thank you!

-Yuriy
 
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