Hierarchical Queries in SQL Server 2005

Question

Way back when I was working in an Oracle shop I took the CONNECT_BY for granted. Now I\'m stuck working with SQL Server 2005 and have some nasty object hierarchies. Specif

Answer 1

To traverse the Depth of the Hierarchy first then the next sibling level, CTE can be used:

declare @tempTable TABLE
(
    ORGUID int,
    ORGNAME nvarchar(100), 
    PARENTORGUID int,
    ORGPATH nvarchar(max)
)

;WITH RECORG(ORGuid, ORGNAME, PARENTORGUID, ORGPATH)
as
(
    select 
        org.UID,
        org.Name,
        org.ParentOrganizationUID,
        dbo.fGetOrganizationBreadcrumbs(org.UID)
    from Organization org
    where org.UID =1

    union all

    select 
        orgRec.UID,
        orgRec.Name,
        orgRec.ParentOrganizationUID,
        dbo.fGetOrganizationBreadcrumbs(orgRec.UID) 
    from Organization orgRec
    inner join RECORG recOrg on orgRec.ParentOrganizationUID = recOrg.ORGuid

)
insert into @tempTable(ORGUID, ORGNAME, PARENTORGUID,ORGPATH)

select ORGUID, ORGNAME, PARENTORGUID,ORGPATH 
from  RECORG rec 

select * 
from @tempTable where ORGUID in(select MIN(tt.ORGUID) 
                                from @tempTable tt 
                                group by tt.PARENTORGUID)