• Jeff Moden (8/30/2012)


    Please see the following. It's pretty simple to do once you know how...

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/72503/

    I was initially expecting to have to use the standard rCTE adjacency list traversal, but then it seemed the OPs requirements were a bit simpler. That why I said it looked "too easy."


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    My advice:
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