We have a general organizational table structure, think of it s a Tree or

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We have a general organizational table structure, think of it s a Tree or

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We have a general organizational table structure, think of it s a Tree or Pyramid Hierarchy. We basically have multiple “trees” we want to show. On for one company, one for another ETC.

Does anyone know of a good way to display this data? SQL Query would be nice, doubt it would be possible, but I wouldn’t be against using some OTS tool (preferably free). I would also like to avoid some type of report. I don’t need an actual solution just need to know if its possible. So if you say SQL if you can give me a 2 table example of showing a root a leave I would be happy.

Structure is pretty general

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And each table is linked through a surrogate key CompanyID, CompanyGroupID, etc.

Any suggestions on ways we could display/query for this data? Last resort is to write a quick C# Windows Application…

We would like to see it in tree form:

--                      1-Company
--                     /        \
--             CompanyGroupA   CompanyGroupB
--            /       \              \
--  CompanyStoreA1 CompanyStoreA1 CompanyStoreB
--    /      \            /    \
--Employee   A            B     C

In attempt to please the masses here is an example test script to populate the query.

DECLARE @Company table (id int, name varchar(40) )
INSERT @Company VALUES (1,'Living Things' )  
INSERT @Company VALUES (2,'Boring Company' )  


DECLARE @CompanyGroup table (id int, name varchar(40), CompanyID int)
INSERT @CompanyGroup VALUES (1,'Pets',1 ) 
INSERT @CompanyGroup VALUES (2,'Humans',1 ) 
INSERT @CompanyGroup VALUES (3,'Electronics',2 ) 
INSERT @CompanyGroup VALUES (4,'Food',2 ) 


DECLARE @CompanyStore table (id int, name varchar(40), CompanyGroupID int)
INSERT @CompanyStore VALUES (1,'PetsStoreA',1 ) 
INSERT @CompanyStore VALUES (2,'PetsStoreB',1 ) 
INSERT @CompanyStore VALUES (3,'PetsStoreC',1 ) 
INSERT @CompanyStore VALUES (4,'PetsStoreD', 1) 
INSERT @CompanyStore VALUES (5,'HumansStore',2 ) 
INSERT @CompanyStore VALUES (6,'FoodStore',3 )

The final solution was pretty awesome I modified the usp_DrawTree to accept varchar vs ints because i had to make my query ids unique. I then just did a select/union all and built the parent child relationship.

select * into #TreeData from (
  select ID='C' + cast(id as varchar(10)),
       ParentID=null,
       DataForBox=name + '(' + cast(id as varchar(10)) + ')',
       ExtraInfo='', 
       SortColumn=name
  from Company c 
 )
union all (
  select ID='CG' + cast(id as varchar(10)),
       ParentID=cg.CompanyID ,
       DataForBox=name + '(' + cast(id as varchar(10)) + ')',
       ExtraInfo='', 
       SortColumn=name
  from CompanyGroup cg join Company c on c.ID=cg.CompanyID 
  ) 
//union all rest of hierarchy
)