Select products where the category belongs to any category in the hierarchy

Question

I have a products table that contains a FK for a category, the Categories table is created in a way that each category can have a parent category, example:

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Answer 1

CREATE TABLE #categories (id INT NOT NULL, parentId INT, [name] NVARCHAR(100))
INSERT INTO #categories
    SELECT 1, NULL, 'Computers'
    UNION
SELECT 2, 1, 'Processors'
    UNION
SELECT 3, 2, 'Intel'
    UNION
SELECT 4, 2, 'AMD'
    UNION
SELECT 5, 3, 'Pentium'
    UNION
SELECT 6, 3, 'Core 2 Duo'
    UNION
SELECT 7, 4, 'Athlon'
SELECT * 
    FROM #categories
DECLARE @id INT
    SET @id = 2
            ; WITH r(id, parentid, [name]) AS (
    SELECT id, parentid, [name] 
        FROM #categories c 
        WHERE id = @id
        UNION ALL
    SELECT c.id, c.parentid, c.[name] 
        FROM #categories c  JOIN r ON c.parentid=r.id
    )
SELECT * 
    FROM products 
    WHERE p.productd IN
(SELECT id 
    FROM r)
DROP TABLE #categories   

The last part of the example isn't actually working if you're running it straight like this. Just remove the select from the products and substitute with a simple SELECT * FROM r