There is no simple way to create recursive queries that have several levels of data (hierarchical data) in SQL Server 2000. A recursive query is used when you have a parent and child data stored ...

Common Table Expressions, or CTEs, were introduced in SQL Server 2005, but they have not been getting the attention they deserve. In their simplest form, they are a named sub-query that appear ...

ANSI SQL 99 adds a recursive query capability which permits it.<BR><BR>SQL Server 2005 will add recursive query capability to T-SQL, but for no good reason doesn't use the ANSI syntax.

Processing occurs one at a time and calls a SQL Server stored procedure. The SPROC is recursive. For each ID that is submitted, it can have any number of child ID's.