Načíst hierarchii z tabulky, jako je tato

Zkuste tuto uloženou proceduru

CREATE PROCEDURE updatePath(in itemId int)
BEGIN
    DECLARE cnt int default 0;
    CREATE temporary table tmpTable 
    (
       `id` int, `name` varchar(15), `parent` int, path varchar(500)  
     )engine=memory select id, name, parent, name AS 'Path' from tbl where id = itemId;
    select parent into cnt from tmpTable;

    while cnt <> 0 do
       Update tmpTable tt, tbl t set tt.parent = t.parent, 
              tt.path = concat(t.name, ' > ', tt.path)
       WHERE tt.parent = t.id;
       select parent into cnt from tmpTable;
    end while;
    select * from tmpTable;
    drop table tmpTable;
END//

Dotaz 1 :

call updatePath(10)

SQL FIDDLE :

| ID |            NAME | PARENT |                                                       PATH |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 10 | "Smear em meat" |      0 | "Kitchenware" > "Knives" > "Meat Knives" > "Smear em meat" |

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