Hierarchical Data in MySQL

Question

I\'ve got a sort of tree like thing going on in my MySQL database.

I have a database that has categories, and each category has a subcat. I\'m keeping all the catego

Answer 1

This thread may help: http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?10,32818,32818#msg-32818

What you really want is START WITH and CONNECT BY syntax, but this is only supported in Oracle, not MySQL.