Hierarchical queries in MySQL
I'm trying to find all the parents, grandparents, etc. of a particular field with any depth. For example, given the below structure, if I provide 5, the values returned should be 1, 2, 3 and 4.
| a | b |
-----------
| 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 4 |
| 4 | 5 |
| 3 | 6 |
| 4 | 7 |
How would I do this?
Solution 1:
SELECT @id :=
(
SELECT senderid
FROM mytable
WHERE receiverid = @id
) AS person
FROM (
SELECT @id := 5
) vars
STRAIGHT_JOIN
mytable
WHERE @id IS NOT NULL