I have a list of parent ids like this 100, 110, 120, 130
which is dynamic and can change. I want to get all descendants for specified parents in a single set. To get children for a single parent I used such query:
WITH parent AS (
SELECT PersonHierarchyID FROM PersonHierarchy
WHERE PersonID = 100
)
SELECT * FROM PersonHierarchy
WHERE PersonHierarchyID.IsDescendantOf((SELECT * FROM parent)) = 1
Have no idea how to do that for multiple parents. My first try was to write something like several unions, however I'm sure that there should be smarter way of doing this.
SELECT * FROM PersonHierarchy
WHERE PersonHierarchyID.IsDescendantOf(
(SELECT PersonHierarchyID FROM PersonHierarchy WHERE PersonID = 100)
) = 1
UNION ALL
SELECT * FROM PersonHierarchy
WHERE PersonHierarchyID.IsDescendantOf(
(SELECT PersonHierarchyID FROM PersonHierarchy WHERE PersonID = 110)
) = 1
UNION ALL ...
P.S. Also I found such query to select list of ids which might be helpful:
SELECT * FROM (VALUES (100), (110), (120), (130)) AS Parent(ParentID)
To summarize, my goal is to write query which accepts array of parent IDs as a parameter and returns all their descendants in a single set.
For SQL to do anything with it, a parent-child tree structure has to be stored in a relational database. These structures are usually stored in one table with two ID columns, of which one references a parent object ID. That lets us determine the hierarchy between data.
The hierarchyid data type is a variable length, system data type. Use hierarchyid to represent position in a hierarchy. A column of type hierarchyid does not automatically represent a tree.
It might be useful for someone. I found way of doing this by self-joining query:
SELECT p2.* FROM PersonHierarchy p1
LEFT JOIN PersonHierarchy p2
ON p2.PersonHierarchyID.IsDescendantOf(p1.PersonHierarchyID) = 1
WHERE
p1.PersonID IN (100, 110, 120, 130)
You can use this query
Select
child.*,
child.[PersonHierarchyID].GetLevel(),
child.[PersonHierarchyID].GetAncestor(1)
From
PersonHierarchy as parents
Inner Join PersonHierarchy as child
On child.[PersonHierarchyID].IsDescendantOf(parents.[PersonHierarchyID] ) = 1
Where
parents.[PersonHierarchyID] = 0x68
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