>Hi all
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>I have a self-joined kind of table where iID is the PK and iPID is the parent records FK in the same table.
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>Now I am at a particular record and I want to know how deep this record is in the heirarchy. The reason is I don't want to allow changing of the iPID for the first and second level records as they are default records and should not be disturbed.
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>Thanks and regards.
I think you will just have to create a UDF that goes all the way to the root and counts the levels.
You might also consider saving the level as part of the data, to avoid those searches.
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