I’ve two tables one of them called Main-Level another one called Sub-level
Sub-level has a foreign key from the Main level (the relation between them Main-Level has one or Many Sub-levels )
what I want is to create a query to show the Main-level row followed by all Sub-level rows such as below screen-shot either by native SQL query or LINQ.
Update:
I used below but the problem is it the result such as Full OUTer JOIN !
select * from Sublevel
right join Mainlevel
on Sublevel.mainlevelID=Mainlevel.id
order by coalesce(Sublevel.mainlevelID, Mainlevel.id),
(case when Sublevel.mainlevelID is null then 1 else 0 end),Mainlevel.id;
Update 2:
Also, I tried below query but with no luck :
SELECT
s.name,
s.Id,
CASE WHEN s.is_child = 1 THEN s.parentID END AS parent_id,
m.name
FROM
Mainlevel m
INNER JOIN (
SELECT id, name, parentID, 1 AS is_child
FROM Sublevel
UNION ALL
SELECT id, name,Null, 0 AS is_child
FROM Mainlevel
) s on m.id = s.mainlevelID
ORDER BY m.id,is_child, s.mainlevelID
My problem in simple language is How to make the child rows appeared below parent row
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Answer
The overall plan is to have parent join (parent + child) order by (parent ID, child ID)
SELECT
c.level_id,
c.level_name,
c.level_code,
CASE WHEN c.is_child = 1 THEN c.parent_id END AS parent_id,
FROM
mainLevel p
INNER JOIN (
SELECT level_id, level_name, level_code, parent_id, 1 AS is_child
FROM subLevel
UNION ALL
SELECT level_id, level_name, level_code, level_id, 0 AS is_child
FROM mainLevel
) c on p.level_id = c.parent_id
ORDER BY p.level_id, is_child, c.level_id
Additional version to adopt to the newly clarified column availability
SELECT
w.name,
w.id,
CASE WHEN w.is_child = 1 THEN w.mid END AS parent_id
FROM
Mainlevel m
INNER JOIN (
SELECT id, name, parentID AS mid, 1 AS is_child
FROM Sublevel
UNION ALL
SELECT id, name, id AS mid, 0 AS is_child
FROM Mainlevel
) w on m.id = w.mid
ORDER BY m.id, is_child, w.id
