Select all parents or children in same table relation SQL Server

Question

SQL developers, I have a badly planned database as task to learn a lot about SQL Server 2012.

SO, there is the table Elem:

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Answer 1

I have met this problem，I resolved problem by this way

 --all  "parent + grandparent + etc" @childID Replaced with the ID you need

with tbParent as
(
   select * from Elem where [KEY]=@childID
   union all
   select Elem.* from Elem  join tbParent  on Elem.[KEY]=tbParent.PARENT_KEY
)
 SELECT * FROM  tbParent
 --all "sons + grandsons + etc" @parentID Replaced with the ID you need

with tbsons as
(
  select * from Elem where [KEY]=@parentID
  union all
  select Elem.* from Elem  join tbsons  on Elem.PARENT_KEY=tbsons.[KEY]
)
SELECT * FROM tbsons

PS.My English is not good.