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Re: Hierarchical Deletion via a Trigger?

by Dennis Cote :: Rate this Message:

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John Elrick wrote:
>
> A recursive trigger would handle this issue nicely...a way of SELECTing
> a hierarchy would also be nice, but I believe there is nothing
> standardized for that particular operation.
>

As Nicolas said, SQL:1999 defines a standard method of doing this. It
uses a WITH RECURSIVE clause as a prefix to a SELECT. It hasn't been
widely implemented, but I believe that IBM's DB2 supports this mechanism.

HTH
Dennis Cote
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