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

This should recurse down all the 'child' catagories starting from a given catagory.

DECLARE @startingCatagoryId int
DECLARE @current int
SET @startingCatagoryId = 13813 -- or whatever the CatagoryId is for 'Processors'

CREATE TABLE #CatagoriesToFindChildrenFor
(CatagoryId int)

CREATE TABLE #CatagoryTree
(CatagoryId int)

INSERT INTO #CatagoriesToFindChildrenFor VALUES (@startingCatagoryId)

WHILE (SELECT count(*) FROM #CatagoriesToFindChildrenFor) > 0
BEGIN
    SET @current = (SELECT TOP 1 * FROM #CatagoriesToFindChildrenFor)

    INSERT INTO #CatagoriesToFindChildrenFor
    SELECT ID FROM Catagory WHERE ParentCatagoryId = @current AND Deleted = 0

    INSERT INTO #CatagoryTree VALUES (@current)
    DELETE #CatagoriesToFindChildrenFor WHERE CatagoryId = @current
END

SELECT * FROM #CatagoryTree ORDER BY CatagoryId

DROP TABLE #CatagoriesToFindChildrenFor
DROP TABLE #CatagoryTree