What is the most efficient/elegant way to parse a flat table into a tree?
Now that MySQL 8.0 supports recursive queries, we can say that all popular SQL databases support recursive queries in standard syntax. WITH RECURSIVE MyTree AS ( SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE ParentId IS NULL UNION ALL SELECT m.* FROM MyTABLE AS m JOIN MyTree AS t ON m.ParentId = t.Id ) SELECT * FROM MyTree; … Read more