Getting error as “ORA-32044: cycle detected while executing recursive WITH query”

Question

I am getting error as \"ORA-32044: cycle detected while executing recursive WITH query\" while executing the following query in Oracle.

WITH EmpsCTE (affiliation         


        

Answer 1

Your code will working fine except only for one data condition that is when your to_customer (1000022560394) himself have started the transaction in the first place and after some level of transaction its being returned to him only.

Eg- Sample Data Set

For this case, your Recursive part of query will find all its conditions true even at the end of the transaction, for the data will be there both in your normal table and incremental dataset.

One solution is to create a match-flag to determine its number of encounter and avoid infinite loop:

WITH EmpsCTE (affiliation_id, from_customer_id,to_customer_id, to_name,level1,match_count)  
AS  
(  
SELECT affiliation_id, from_customer_id,to_customer_id, to_name, 0, 0 match_count  
 FROM affiliation aff  
 WHERE to_customer_id != from_customer_id  
 and to_customer_id = 1000022560394  
UNION ALL  
SELECT aff.affiliation_id, aff.from_customer_id,aff.to_customer_id, aff.to_name, m.level1 + 1,1 match_count  
 FROM affiliation aff  
 INNER JOIN EmpsCTE  m  
 ON aff.to_customer_id = m.from_customer_id  
 where m.match_count=0  
)  
SELECT * FROM EmpsCTE;