Please start any new threads on our new site at https://forums.sqlteam.com. We've got lots of great SQL Server experts to answer whatever question you can come up with.

 All Forums
 SQL Server 2005 Forums
 Transact-SQL (2005)
 Help building a query

Author  Topic 

shawnmolloy
Yak Posting Veteran

93 Posts

Posted - 2007-08-09 : 01:17:44
Hi,

I'm building a shopping cart. I need help writing a query that gets a list of categories for a store. I want to get a result set that has all categories in order by their parent category.

This is what the table looks like:

Tbl_Category
----------------
ID (int)
ParentID (int)
CategoryName (varchar)


I want to get a list of categories like this:

Clothing (id: 5) (Parent Category)
TShirts (id: 6) (Child)
Mens shirts (id: 7) (child)

In the table, the child categories have the top level category as the parent id, so the "Tshirt" parent_id is 5, and the "Mens shirts" parent_id is 6.

I hope that makes sense...

Thanks

-- shawn

shallu1_gupta
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

394 Posts

Posted - 2007-08-09 : 01:24:14
Hi,
for listing all the categories by their parent id. hope this is what you are looking for..
select categoryname, id
from tbl_category
order by parentid
Go to Top of Page
   

- Advertisement -