Question

EmployeeId, Name, ManagerId
1,Mac Manager, null
2,Sue Supervisor, 1
3,Earl Employee, 2
4,Sam Supervisor, 1
5,Ella Employee, 4

Given: Employee Id = 3

Can you help me with sql to get the employee plus managers up the chain?

In this example the results would be

Earl
Sue
Mac

Answer 1

Have a look at Recursive Queries Using Common Table Expressions

declare @EmpID int = 3;

with C as
(
  select E.EmployeeId,
         E.Name,
         E.ManagerId
  from YourTable as E
  where E.EmployeeId = @EmpID
  union all
  select E.EmployeeId,
         E.Name,
         E.ManagerId
  from YourTable as E
    inner join C  
      on E.EmployeeId = C.ManagerId
)
select C.Name
from C

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