I have this table with pages, these pages have parents that are also pages in the same table.
For this examples sake the table looks like:
table: Pages
PageId :Key
PageParent :Foreign Key
PageName
Now my question is what would the SQL look like when creating a menustructure like:
PageId PageParent PageName
1 NULL home
2 1 page_under_home1
5 2 page_under_pageid2_1
6 2 page_under_pageid2_2
4 1 page_under_home2
5 4 page_under_pageid4_1
7 5 page_under_pageid5_1
6 4 page_under_pageid4_2
9 6 page_under_pageid6_1
10 6 page_under_pageid6_2
8 1 page_under_home3
11 1 page_under_home4
12 11 page_under_pageid11_1
13 12 page_under_pageid12_1
I currently have this:
SELECT p1.PageId, p1.PageName, p1.PageParent, p2.PageName AS Expr1
FROM dbo.pages AS p1 FULL OUTER JOIN
(SELECT PageId, PageName
FROM dbo.pages
WHERE (PageParent IS NULL)) AS p2 ON p2.PageId = p1.PageParent
but that doesnt nearly create the output I want and I think I'm going at it completely the wrong way...
EDIT:
this is what I currently have:
WITH
PagesMenu(pageId, PageParent, PageName)
AS
(
SELECT
PageId, PageParent, PageName
FROM
dbo.pages
WHERE
(PageParent IS NULL)
AND
(PageIsVisible = 'True')
UNION ALL
SELECT
b.PageId, b.PageParent, b.PageName
FROM
PagesMenu AS a
INNER JOIN
dbo.pages AS b
ON
a.pageId = b.PageParent
)
SELECT pageId, PageParent, PageName
FROM PagesMenu
And it seems to somewhat work but not completely recurs, the first recursion seems to work but it looks like it doesn't do it a second time.
Result:
pageId PageParent PageName
3 NULL home
1 3 test
4 3 test
5 4 test
6 4 test
7 4 test
8 5 test <---wrong
2 1 test <---wrong