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Suppose I have employees and departments where one employee can belong to different department with different role.
For example Emp 1 belongs to Dept 1 with role manager. where the same employee can belong to Dept 2 with role service man .
Each employee also have child hierarchy like Emp 2, Emp 3 belongs to Dept 1 with role assistant and their parent is Emp 1.
In this case what will be the best solution for designing this concept. Please share your opinion.
Friday, July 24, 2020 8:12 AM
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>>Each employee also have child hierarchy like Emp 2, Emp 3 belongs to Dept 1 with role assistant and their parent >>is Emp 1.
Itzik Ben-Gan has great examples , please see below
CREATE TABLE Employees
(
empid int NOT NULL,
mgrid int NULL,
empname varchar(25) NOT NULL,
salary money NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT PK_Employees PRIMARY KEY(empid),
CONSTRAINT FK_Employees_mgrid_empid
FOREIGN KEY(mgrid)
REFERENCES Employees(empid)
)
CREATE INDEX idx_nci_mgrid ON Employees(mgrid)
SET NOCOUNT ON
INSERT INTO Employees VALUES(1 , NULL, 'Nancy' , $10000.00)
INSERT INTO Employees VALUES(2 , 1 , 'Andrew' , $5000.00)
INSERT INTO Employees VALUES(3 , 1 , 'Janet' , $5000.00)
INSERT INTO Employees VALUES(4 , 1 , 'Margaret', $5000.00)
INSERT INTO Employees VALUES(5 , 2 , 'Steven' , $2500.00)
INSERT INTO Employees VALUES(6 , 2 , 'Michael' , $2500.00)
INSERT INTO Employees VALUES(7 , 3 , 'Robert' , $2500.00)
INSERT INTO Employees VALUES(8 , 3 , 'Laura' , $2500.00)
INSERT INTO Employees VALUES(9 , 3 , 'Ann' , $2500.00)
INSERT INTO Employees VALUES(10, 4 , 'Ina' , $2500.00)
INSERT INTO Employees VALUES(11, 7 , 'David' , $2000.00)
INSERT INTO Employees VALUES(12, 7 , 'Ron' , $2000.00)
INSERT INTO Employees VALUES(13, 7 , 'Dan' , $2000.00)
INSERT INTO Employees VALUES(14, 11 , 'James' , $1500.00)
-----------------------------
The first request is probably the most common one:
returning an employee (for example, Robert whose empid=7)
and his/her subordinates in all levels.
The following CTE provides a solution to this request:
WITH EmpCTE(empid, empname, mgrid, lvl)
AS
(
-- Anchor Member (AM)
SELECT empid, empname, mgrid, 0
FROM Employees
WHERE empid = 7
UNION ALL
-- Recursive Member (RM)
SELECT E.empid, E.empname, E.mgrid, M.lvl+1
FROM Employees AS E
JOIN EmpCTE AS M
ON E.mgrid = M.empid
)
SELECT * FROM EmpCTE
--------------------------------------
Using this level counter you can limit the number of iterations
in the recursion. For example, the following CTE is used to return
all employees who are two levels below Janet:
WITH EmpCTEJanet(empid, empname, mgrid, lvl)
AS
(
SELECT empid, empname, mgrid, 0
FROM Employees
WHERE empid = 3
UNION ALL
SELECT E.empid, E.empname, E.mgrid, M.lvl+1
FROM Employees as E
JOIN EmpCTEJanet as M
ON E.mgrid = M.empid
WHERE lvl < 2
)
SELECT empid, empname
FROM EmpCTEJanet
WHERE lvl = 2
------------------------------------------
As mentioned earlier, CTEs can refer to
local variables that are defined within the same batch.
For example, to make the query more generic, you can use
variables instead of constants for employee ID and level:
DECLARE @empid AS INT, @lvl AS INT
SET @empid = 3 -- Janet
SET @lvl = 2 -- two levels
WITH EmpCTE(empid, empname, mgrid, lvl)
AS
(
SELECT empid, empname, mgrid, 0
FROM Employees
WHERE empid = @empid
UNION ALL
SELECT E.empid, E.empname, E.mgrid, M.lvl+1
FROM Employees as E
JOIN EmpCTE as M
ON E.mgrid = M.empid
WHERE lvl < @lvl
)
SELECT empid, empname
FROM EmpCTE
WHERE lvl = @lvl
-----------------------------------------------
Results generated thus far might be returned (but are not guaranteed to be),
and error 530 is generated. You might think of using the MAXRECURSION option
to implement the request to return employees who are two levels below
Janet using the MAXRECURSION hint instead of the filter in the recursive member
WITH EmpCTE(empid, empname, mgrid, lvl)
AS
(
SELECT empid, empname, mgrid, 0
FROM Employees
WHERE empid = 1
UNION ALL
SELECT E.empid, E.empname, E.mgrid, M.lvl+1
FROM Employees as E
JOIN EmpCTE as M
ON E.mgrid = M.empid
)
SELECT * FROM EmpCTE
OPTION (MAXRECURSION 2)
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WITH EmpCTE(empid, empname, mgrid, lvl, sortcol)
AS
(
SELECT empid, empname, mgrid, 0,
CAST(empid AS VARBINARY(900))
FROM Employees
WHERE empid = 1
UNION ALL
SELECT E.empid, E.empname, E.mgrid, M.lvl+1,
CAST(sortcol + CAST(E.empid AS BINARY(4)) AS VARBINARY(900))
FROM Employees AS E
JOIN EmpCTE AS M
ON E.mgrid = M.empid
)
SELECT
REPLICATE(' | ', lvl)
+ '(' + (CAST(empid AS VARCHAR(10))) + ') '
+ empname AS empname
FROM EmpCTE
ORDER BY sortcol
(1) Nancy
| (2) Andrew
| | (5) Steven
| | (6) Michael
| (3) Janet
| | (7) Robert
| | | (11) David
| | | | (14) James
| | | (12) Ron
| | | (13) Dan
| | (8) Laura
| | (9) Ann
| (4) Margaret
| | (10) Ina
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- Proposed as answer by Naomi NEditor Monday, July 27, 2020 4:10 AM
Monday, July 27, 2020 3:57 AM