join with same table in mysql?

Question

Im having the following table , each employee have a manager, if a guy is his own manager den the managerid field is null, i want emid name and manager id as result

Answer 1

select
      e1.emid,
      e1.name,
      COALESCE(e2.name, e1.name ) ManagerName
   from 
      employees e1
         left join employees e2
            on e1.managerid = e2.emid

Answer 2

SELECT emid, name,
       CASE WHEN s.managerid IS NULL THEN s.name ELSE m.name END managername
  FROM employees s
  LEFT JOIN employees m ON s.managerid = m.managerid

OR

SELECT emid, name, m.name managername
  FROM employees s
  LEFT JOIN employees m ON COALESCE(s.managerid, s.emid) = m.emid

Answer 3

UNTESTED:

select a.name as name, b.name as managername from employee a inner join employee b on a.managerid=b.emid

This will only yield the employees who actually have a manager. But this is how you join a table on itself.

Answer 4

SELECT e1.emid, e1.name, COALESCE(e2.name, e1.name) AS managername
    FROM employee e1
        LEFT JOIN employee e2
            ON e1.managerid = e2.emid