SQL CTE Recursion: Returning Parent Records

Question

I am currently running a CTE query to recursively build an employee hierarchy from an employees table similar to what most recursive examples demonstrate. Where I am stuck

Answer 1

Are you looking for a query to return a variable number of columns, depending on the depth of hierarchy? Or just a concatenated string in one field?

Here's a minor change to your query that will get Eric and anyone above him in the hierarchy.

WITH    employeeMaster
      AS ( SELECT   p.EmployeeID ,
                    p.MgrID ,
                    p.NAME
           FROM     Employees p
           WHERE    p.NAME = 'Eric'
           UNION ALL
           SELECT   c.EmployeeID ,
                    c.MgrID ,
                    c.NAME
           FROM     employeeMaster cte
                    INNER JOIN Employees c ON c.EmployeeID = cte.MgrID
         )
SELECT  *
FROM    employeeMaster m