A popular form of organizing dimensions is in parent-child structures, also known as “unbalanced” or “ragged” dimensions, because any branch can have an arbitrary number of child levels. There are many advantages to this type of representation, but their recursive nature also brings some challenges. In this post, we’re going to look at circular references, and how you can trap them before they run out of control.
Tag: parent-child
Traversing parent-child relations
In this short tutorial, we’ll look at traversing parent-child structures using recursive common table expressions, and turning the data into human-readable lists. This is a great way to represent paths and hierarchy-based data in reports and end-user outputs.
Working with dependencies
Working with dependencies, particularly recursive dependencies, may not always be entirely intuitive, but it could be critical knowledge in your database development work. This article focuses primarily on different ways of visualizing dependencies and how to loop through them using recursive common table expressions.