MySql: ORDER BY parent and child

问题

I have a table like:

+------+---------+-
| id   | parent  |
+------+---------+
| 2043 |    NULL |
| 2044 |    2043 |
| 2045 |    2043 |
| 2049 |    2043 |
| 2047 |    NULL |
| 2048 |    2047 |
| 2043 |    2047 |
+------+---------+

which shows a simple, 2-level "parent-child"-corelation. How can I ORDER BY an SELECT-statement to get the order like in the list above, which means: 1st parent, childs of 1st parent, 2nd parent, childs of 2nd parent and so on (if I have that, I can add the ORDER BYs for the children... I hope). Is it possible withoug adding a sort-field?

回答1:

Including sorting children by id:

ORDER BY COALESCE(parent, id), parent IS NOT NULL, id

SQL Fiddle example

Explanation:

• COALESCE(parent, id): First sort by (effectively grouping together) the parent's id.
• parent IS NOT NULL: Put the parent row on top of the group
• id: Finally sort all the children (same parent, and parent is not null)

回答2:

If your table uses 0 instead of null to indicate an entry with no parent:

id   | parent
-------------
1233 | 0
1234 | 1233
1235 | 0
1236 | 1233
1237 | 1235

Use greatest instead of coalesce and check the value does not equal 0:

ORDER BY GREATEST(parent, id), parent != 0, id

回答3:

The solution above didn't work for me, my table used 0 instead of NULL. I found this other solution: you create a column with the concatened parent id and child id in your query and you can sort the result by it .

SELECT CONCAT(IF(parent = 0,'',CONCAT('/',parent)),'/',id) AS gen_order
FROM table 
ORDER BY gen_order

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13382380/mysql-order-by-parent-and-child