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Hierarchy Query

810903Nov 5 2010 — edited Nov 5 2010
Hi Everyone,

I have a small requirement regarding hierarchy query which goes as below....

I have a table RELATION which has a child - parent relation.

create table relation
( parent number,
child number primary key
);

And the data will be like.

Parent Child
A B
A c
B D
B E
D F
C G

Now if i start from A i need the full path from A to its sons(and son of sons) all the possible path. can any one please help

me in writing a query which can give as the below output.

For A the output shoud be two rows as below:
A->B->D->F
A->B->E

For B as a parent it should be:
B->D->F
B->E

Please reply

Thanks in advance,
Sartaj
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