SQL Server递归查询

时间:2010-10-12 15:55:47

标签: sql-server sql-server-2005 sql-server-2008 recursive-query

我是SQL Server开发的新手。我的大多数经验都是用Oracle完成的。

假设我有下表包含约会对象

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Appointments](
    [AppointmentID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
    .......
    [AppointmentDate] [datetime] NOT NULL,
    [PersonID] [int] NOT NULL,
    [PrevAppointmentID] [int] NULL,
 CONSTRAINT [PK_Appointments] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ([AppointmentID] ASC)

可以推迟约会,当发生这种情况时,会在表上创建一个新行,其中PrevAppointmentID字段包含原始约会的ID。

我想查询以获取人员约会的历史记录。例如,如果ID = 1的任命被推迟两次,并且这些推迟已经为同一个PersonID创建了ID = 7和ID = 12的约会,我想做一个返回以下结果的查询:

AppointmentID         PrevAppointmentID
-----------------    ----------------------
1                     NULL
7                     1
12                    7

如果使用Oracle,我记得可以使用CONNECT BY PRIOR子句获得类似的东西。

有没有办法进行查询才能获得这些结果?

我正在使用SQL Server 2005/2008。

提前致谢

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:18)

研究使用所谓的CTE(公用表表达式)(参考MSDN document):

;with cteAppointments as (
 select AppointmentID, PersonID, PrevAppointmentID
     from Appointments
     where PrevAppointmentID is null
 union all
 select a.AppointmentID, a.PersonID, a.PrevAppointmentID
     from Appointments a
         inner join cteAppointments c
             on a.PrevAppointmentID = c.AppointmentID
)
select AppointmentID, PrevAppointmentID
    from cteAppointments
    where PersonID = xxx