Sorting a hierarchy ...

Hi Everyone,
I have a table which is structured as a hierarchy thus ...
id parent
top -/-
GB top
London GB
Bristol GB
Manchester GB
DE top
Berlin DE
Munich DE
FR top
Paris FR
Lyon FR
... etc.
... which I need to output in the same format.
However the order of the items is completely random (in the table) so Berlin does not appear directly below DE (for example) ...
ES top
Moscow RU
Madrid ES
Edinbourgh GB
... etc.
So what I need is a sorting syntax which will retreive the table's contents as I have presented above (in the first extract) with the hierarchy displayed in its natural groups (i.e. DE followed by Berlin, Munich, etc.).
I have played around the the "PARTITION" command but cannot seem to get it working so am hoping that someone out there can point me towards the correct syntax?
Many thanks,
Alan Searle

Hi, Alan,
Use CONNECT BY:
SELECT     id
,     parent
FROM     table_x
START WITH     parent     IS NULL
CONNECT BY     parent     = PRIOR id
ORDER SIBLINGS BY     id          -- Optional
;ORDER SIBLINGS would guarantee that DE and FR (with all their cities) came before GB, and that, within each country, the cities appeared in alphabetic order, like this:
id          parent
top
DE           top
Berlin           DE
Munich           DE
FR           top
Lyon           FR
Paris           FR
GB           top
Bristol      GB
London           GB
Manchester      GB
...For an introduction to CONNECT BY queries, see
http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/trees
For several examples of CONNECT BY queries, see
http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/Oracle/0040__Query-Select/HierarchicalQueries.htm
Naturally, CONNECT BY is documented in the SQL language manual:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28286/queries003.htm#sthref3259
Edited by: Frank Kulash on Jan 2, 2012 5:59 AM

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Fiscal Year Characteristic - Restrict to variable 0P_FYEAR
The reason you should have the Fiscal Year there is that you can use the text variable to set the column headers.
Be careful that you use the right KF for this. You need the periodic activity for the KF. The reason Period 00 is included as that is where the balance from the prior year is carried over, so if you want to have the YTD values for the Balance Sheet, you would want to include that. This scenario is the only option in BCS, and it doesn't have the Cumulative values.
you can also use the cumulative values, but that depends on how the KF's are set up
Pavel

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