hierarchy

We have a table like this (simplified version): Items: Itemid Itemname Itemfatherid itemA theitemA null itemB theitemB null itemC theitemC itemA itemD theitemD itemA itemE theitemE itemC itemF theitemF itemE itemG theitemG itemD We need a sql query that gives the following result/format: (Corrected version) Col1 Col2 Col3 Col4 itemA itemC itemE itemF itemA itemD itemG NULL itemB NULL NULL NULL Our ERP would take this resul and convert it to a tree control like this: -itemA -itemC -itemE itemF -itemD itemG itemB The level of the tree is not fixed so the number of columns must be dynamic...

I'm trying to save everything whilst running my program. I want to save every Gameobject with their scripts and variables. I know that it's possible to serialize everything and save it to an XML (and other ways/formats like JSON). This would require alot of work and time. The program may change alot in the future so the upkeep of maintaining this approach would be very time consuming. so I would prefer to use a different approach. In unity it's possible to save and load a scene and I was hoping if someone knows something similair. I know it's possible to save Scenes during runtime like this

I'm building a tree structure (or rather modifying one of the examples with a set of my own data in my own json) and I'm trying to create some functionality: My tree's layout is that from the tree example: http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ex/cluster.html I am adding (to the circles) an onclick event which I would like to collapse the children of the clicked node. That is to say, when a user clicks the steelblue circle associated with a node, I want that nodes children to disappear. I've scoured the documentation and I haven't turned up anything which would allow me to make nodes collapse or

I have a table like this: id name parent_id 1 ab1 3 2 ab2 5 3 ab3 2 4 ab4 null 5 ab5 null 6 ab6 null I need to do a query with input id = 1 (for an example) and results will be like this: id name parent_id 5 ab5 null 2 ab2 5 3 ab3 2 1 ab1 3 (List all parents at all level start at item id = 1) Something like this perhaps? WITH parents(id,name,parent,level) AS ( SELECT ID, NAME, PARENT, 0 as level FROM TABLE WHERE ID = 1 UNION ALL SELECT ID, NAME, PARENT, Level + 1 FROM TABLE WHERE id = (SELECT TOP 1 parent FROM parents order by level desc) ) SELECT * FROM parents Use WITH RECURSIVE .