Roll up count in hierarchical table(self referential table)

Question

I Have a table in the below format.This is a self referential table where each record points to its parent record.

NODE_ID  PARENT_ID  COUNT
1        0          NULL
2        1          NULL
3        2          10
4        2          12
5        0          NULL
6        5          NULL
7        6          NULL
8        7          12 

I want the output to be in below format.The count of parent should be the sum of count of leaf childs. Note: Only the leaf childs will contain the count. I want to roll it up till parents.

NODE_ID  PARENT_ID  COUNT
1        0          22
2        1          22
3        2          10
4        2          12
5        0          12
6        5          12
7        6          12
8        7          12 

Please help.

Answer 1

Well, I couldn't think of anything simpler:

;WITH GetLevelsCTE AS (
   SELECT NODE_ID, PARENT_ID, COUNT, level = 1, ROOT = NODE_ID
   FROM mytable
   WHERE PARENT_ID = 0

   UNION ALL

   SELECT t1.NODE_ID, t1.PARENT_ID, t1.COUNT, level = t2.level + 1, t2.ROOT
   FROM mytable AS t1
   JOIN GetLevelsCTE AS t2 ON t2.NODE_ID = t1.PARENT_ID
), MaxLevelCTE AS (
   -- Get MAX level per root NODE_ID
   SELECT MAX(level) AS max_level, ROOT
   FROM GetLevelsCTE
   GROUP BY ROOT
), GetCountCTE AS (
   -- Anchor query: start from the bottom 
   SELECT t1.NODE_ID, t1.PARENT_ID, t1.COUNT, t1.level
   FROM GetLevelsCTE AS t1
   JOIN MaxLevelCTE AS t2 ON t1.ROOT = t2.ROOT 
   WHERE t1.level = t2.max_level

   UNION ALL

   -- Recursive query: get counts of next level
   SELECT t1.NODE_ID, t1.PARENT_ID, t2.COUNT, t1.level
   FROM GetLevelsCTE AS t1
   JOIN GetCountCTE AS t2 ON t1.level = t2.level - 1 AND t1.NODE_ID = t2.PARENT_ID
)
SELECT NODE_ID, PARENT_ID, SUM(COUNT) AS COUNT
FROM GetCountCTE
GROUP BY NODE_ID, PARENT_ID
ORDER BY NODE_ID

Short explanation:

• GetLevelsCTE is used to assign a level number to every node of the tree.
• MaxLevelCTE uses the previous CTE in order the obtain the maximum level of the tree.
• GetCountCTE uses both previous CTEs in order to traverse the tree from the bottom to the parent node. This way, the COUNT is propagated to the parent node.