Selecting records in order of parent id

Question

Simple question.. just can\'t get the result set in the order I need :p

I have a table \"categories\"

id    | name     | parent
1       apple      0
         


        

Answer 1

This would work, but not recursively.

SELECT 
  b.* 
FROM
  categories a 
  RIGHT JOIN categories b ON b.parent = a.id
ORDER BY
  COALESCE(a.name, b.name), b.name