Oh haiThis is closely related to this problem where Ryan & Peter helped me out loads (thanks again guys):http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=101989I now have a slightly different problem. Instead of returning the cumulative counts of people related to a business unit in the hierarchy I now need to return the actual people records. I had some code, derived from the above, that worked fine until I loaded some new data. It took a while but eventually I figured out the (now obvious) reason for the error. I have tried several changes to the query and not got anywhere. Please could someone have a look and see if you can suggest the required alteration(s)?USE tempdbgo----------------------------------------------------------------- Set up the structure & data...---------------------------------------------------------------CREATE TABLE dbo.org ( unit_code VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL , parent_code VARCHAR(10) NULL , CONSTRAINT pk_org PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED (unit_code) WITH (FILLFACTOR = 100) )GO CREATE TABLE dbo.org_peeps ( unit_code VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL , person_code INT NOT NULL , CONSTRAINT pk_org_peeps PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED (unit_code, person_code) WITH (FILLFACTOR = 100) , CONSTRAINT fk_org_peeps_other_org_peeps FOREIGN KEY (unit_code) REFERENCES dbo.org (unit_code) )GO CREATE VIEW dbo.org_peeps_parents--WITH SCHEMABINDINGAS SELECT org.unit_code , org.parent_code , org_peeps.person_code FROM dbo.org LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.org_peeps ON org_peeps.unit_code = org.unit_codeGO INSERT INTO dbo.org (unit_code, parent_code)SELECT 'a', 'y' UNION ALLSELECT 'b', 'y' UNION ALLSELECT 'c', 'z' UNION ALLSELECT 'y', 'z' UNION ALLSELECT 'z', NULL--Insert people data (NOTE - the people are in units at the BOTTOM of the structure only)INSERT INTO dbo.org_peeps (unit_code, person_code)SELECT 'a', 1 UNION ALLSELECT 'c', 3---------------------------------------------------------------SELECT 'This works great....'---------------------------------------------------------------;WITH materialised_pathsAS ( SELECT unit_code , parent_code , person_code , unit_path = '/' + CAST(unit_code AS VARCHAR(MAX)) + '/' FROM dbo.org_peeps_parents WHERE parent_code IS NULL UNION ALL SELECT all_people.unit_code , all_people.parent_code , all_people.person_code , mp.unit_path + CAST(all_people.unit_code AS VARCHAR(MAX)) + '/' FROM dbo.org_peeps_parents AS all_people INNER JOIN materialised_paths AS mp ON mp.unit_code = all_people.parent_code )SELECT parents.unit_code , children.person_code , children.unit_pathFROM materialised_paths AS childrenCROSS APPLY --Correlated derived table - get the child records per unit ( SELECT unit_code , parent_code FROM dbo.org AS parents_sub WHERE children.unit_path LIKE '%/' + parents_sub.unit_code + '/%' ) AS parentsWHERE children.person_code IS NOT NULLORDER BY person_code , unit_code--Add data to INTERMEDIATE levels of organisationINSERT INTO dbo.org_peeps (unit_code, person_code)SELECT 'y', 4 UNION ALLSELECT 'y', 5 UNION ALLSELECT 'y', 6---------------------------------------------------------------SELECT 'Since there is now data in the intermediate tables there are ' + 'duplicate outputs....'---------------------------------------------------------------;WITH materialised_pathsAS ( SELECT unit_code , parent_code , person_code , unit_path = '/' + CAST(unit_code AS VARCHAR(MAX)) + '/' FROM dbo.org_peeps_parents WHERE parent_code IS NULL UNION ALL SELECT all_people.unit_code , all_people.parent_code , all_people.person_code , mp.unit_path + CAST(all_people.unit_code AS VARCHAR(MAX)) + '/' FROM dbo.org_peeps_parents AS all_people INNER JOIN materialised_paths AS mp ON mp.unit_code = all_people.parent_code )SELECT parents.unit_code , children.person_code , children.unit_pathFROM materialised_paths AS childrenCROSS APPLY --Correlated derived table - get the child records per unit ( SELECT unit_code , parent_code FROM dbo.org AS parents_sub WHERE children.unit_path LIKE '%/' + parents_sub.unit_code + '/%' ) AS parentsWHERE children.person_code IS NOT NULLORDER BY person_code , unit_code---------------------------------------------------------------SELECT 'This is the output I want - but I can''t simply apply distinct - the volumes of data preclude this'---------------------------------------------------------------;WITH materialised_pathsAS ( SELECT unit_code , parent_code , person_code , unit_path = '/' + CAST(unit_code AS VARCHAR(MAX)) + '/' FROM dbo.org_peeps_parents WHERE parent_code IS NULL UNION ALL SELECT all_people.unit_code , all_people.parent_code , all_people.person_code , mp.unit_path + CAST(all_people.unit_code AS VARCHAR(MAX)) + '/' FROM dbo.org_peeps_parents AS all_people INNER JOIN materialised_paths AS mp ON mp.unit_code = all_people.parent_code )SELECT DISTINCT parents.unit_code , children.person_code , children.unit_pathFROM materialised_paths AS childrenCROSS APPLY --Correlated derived table - get the child records per unit ( SELECT unit_code , parent_code FROM dbo.org AS parents_sub WHERE children.unit_path LIKE '%/' + parents_sub.unit_code + '/%' ) AS parentsWHERE children.person_code IS NOT NULLORDER BY person_code , unit_code--Clean upIF EXISTS (SELECT NULL FROM sys.views WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID('dbo.org_peeps_parents')) BEGIN DROP VIEW dbo.org_peeps_parentsENDIF EXISTS (SELECT NULL FROM sys.tables WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID('dbo.org_peeps')) BEGIN DROP TABLE dbo.org_peepsENDIF EXISTS (SELECT NULL FROM sys.tables WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID('dbo.org')) BEGIN DROP TABLE dbo.orgEND
Just paste and run the code and hopefully it should be reasonably clear. If you need any further info please let me know