Recursion In Oracle

Question

I have the following table in an oracle:

Parent(arg1, arg2)

and I want the transitive closure of the relation parent. That is, I want the f

Answer 1

Oracle allows recursive queries. See: http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/sql/connect_by.html

Of course, these usually assume the hierarchical data is all in one table. Splitting it into separate tables makes things complicated.