CONNECT BY or hierarchical queries in RDBMS other than Oracle
问题 Oracle ships with a very handy feature. You can create hierarchical queries (recursive behaviour) using the following clause: CONNECT BY [NOCYCLE] {condition [AND condition...]} [START WITH condition] As documented here: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28286/queries003.htm I'm wondering, are there any other established RDBMS that support an equivalent or similar syntax? Or can recursive behaviour like this be generically simulated using regular SQL? A good example