Save the date to see my presentation about “Oracle Analytic Functions in Practice Applications” along the regular meetup of the DOAG/Oracle-community in Hamburg on Dec 4 2018. Although analytic functions is nothing really new in the Oracle world, I’m again attempting to propagate the thrilling productivity of this SQL-toolset, since practice applications are still not as dispersed as expected. To this extent, I want to stress windowing and aggregation over analytics and statistics in real world scenarios and examples. The presentation will be held in German, I suppose. Event details go here and there:
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Bottom-up hierarchical root path query recipe in oracle
Oracle supports hierarchical querying since long and has continuously extended the set of available features, i.e. pseudo-columns, path generation, leaf sorting by name, etc. With 11gR2, Oracle even complements with the ANSI SQL standard approach: the CONNECT BY syntax for hierarchical querying that can now be replaced by the ANSI SQL standard Recursive Subquery Factoring clause, see Oracle RDBMS 11gR2 – goodbye Connect By or: the end of hierarchical querying as we know it for more information.
However, talking about hierarchical querying with Oracle always implies a top-down traversion (see another post on that subject from a couple of years ago that did not provided a PL/SQL ready solution as Implementing bottom-up path traversal for hierarchical tables). You start (START WITH) at some root node(s) of your choice and dive into the branches and leaves (CONNECT BY) by connecting child-nodes to parent-nodes until the final leaf has been consumed (check CONNECT_BY_ISLEAF) or a certain LEVEL has been reached by filter. There is tons of examples out there showing this in action. Here is just some simple code example to start off with, employing SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH, introducing root- to leaf-node path generation over the child-to-parent relationship between columns T.P_ID and T.ID.
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