To remove duplicate data using connect by prior

Hi ,
I want to details of the employee whom reporting to without duplication .
In table data,one employee reporting to two employees.so that reporting to process is coming two times.
Query:
SELECT lpad(' ', (level - 1) * 2) || EMPLOYEE_NAME as EMP_NAME,SUP_BU AS BU_CODE,SUP_REP_BU,EMP_NO,EMPLOYEE_NAME,LEVEL AS THE_LEVEL
FROM ATTD_REPORT_TO_VW
WHERE EMP_NO IS NOT NULL
CONNECT BY PRIOR SUP_BU = SUP_REP_BU
START WITH SUP_BU = :p_bu
BUT i get the duplicate data,SUPPOSE i remove the duplication using distinct keyword ,the order of hierarchical is going wrong.
Pls provide the solution.
Thanks ,
Maran

plz ask this question in seperate SQL/PLSQL forum and also provide more information with sample data

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Hi Guys,
I am supporting a product which is enterprise based and only allowd to write queries which are ANSII standard.
I have an requirement like If I provide the child I need to know all the parents till highest level.
My table structure is like below
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Hi,
960593 wrote:
Hi Guys,
I am supporting a product which is enterprise based and only allowd to write queries which are ANSII standard.
I have an requirement like If I provide the child I need to know all the parents till highest level.
My table structure is like below
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I wil pass the org_unit id and want to list all the parents of the chile org_unit_id and it has to be accomplished without using connec by prior.
Please suggest me some ideas and aprroches
I am using Orcle 11g version
The data model you posted (org_unit_id as primary key, parent_org_unit_id as foreign key to the same table for the parent, when there is a parent) is called the Adjacency Model because it keeps track of which nodes are adjacent (or next to) each other.
I'm familiar with 2 other ways to model hierarchies: the Nested Sets Model, and what I call the Lineage Model. I'll show how to find a given node's ancestors (in hierarchical order) in each model. Neither the Nested Sets nor the Lineage Model requires CONNECT BY or recursive WITH clauses to work.
The following table contains all the columns necessary for using each of these 3 models:
     EMPNO        MGR ENAME      LINEAGE                    NS_LOW NS_HIGH
      7839            KING       /7839/                          1      28
      7698       7839 BLAKE      /7839/7698/                     2      13
      7499       7698 ALLEN      /7839/7698/7499/                3       4
      7900       7698 JAMES      /7839/7698/7900/                5       6
      7654       7698 MARTIN     /7839/7698/7654/                7       8
      7844       7698 TURNER     /7839/7698/7844/                9      10
      7521       7698 WARD       /7839/7698/7521/               11      12
      7782       7839 CLARK      /7839/7782/                    14      17
      7934       7782 MILLER     /7839/7782/7934/               15      16
      7566       7839 JONES      /7839/7566/                    18      27
      7902       7566 FORD       /7839/7566/7902/               19      22
      7369       7902 SMITH      /7839/7566/7902/7369/          20      21
      7788       7566 SCOTT      /7839/7566/7788/               23      26
      7876       7788 ADAMS      /7839/7566/7788/7876/          24      25
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FROM      emp a
JOIN      emp d   ON d.lineage LIKE '%/' || a.empno || '/%'
WHERE     d.ename IN ('ADAMS')
ORDER BY d.ename
,         a.lineage
Output:
     EMPNO ENAME      LINEAGE
      7839 KING       /7839/
      7566 JONES      /7839/7566/
      7788 SCOTT      /7839/7566/7788/
      7876 ADAMS      /7839/7566/7788/7876/
The Nested Sets model is harder to understand.
Imagine everyone in the hierarchy standing on a wide staircase, as if for a group picture; everyone on the same level standing on the same step. Everyone is holding up an umbrella that is wide enough to cover himself and all the people who are under him in the hierarchy. The people with no underlings have small umbrellas, denoted like this "<-SMITH->", and peole that manage others have bigger umbrellas, like this: <-------- JONES -------->. So the group picture might look like this:
<-------------------------------------------- KING --------------------------------------------->
<---------------------- BLAKE ---------------------> <-- CLARK --> <-------- JONES -------->
   <-ALLEN-> <-JAMES-> <-MARTIN-> <-TURNER-> <-WARD->    <-MILLER->     <-- FORD--> <--SCOTT-->
                                                                         <-SMITH->   <-ADAMS->
Each parent's umbrella covers all of his descendants (children, grandchildren, etc.), and nobody else.
Now draw vertical lines trom the edges of each umbrella downwards, and number those lines from left to right:
<-------------------------------------------- KING ------------------------------------------------>
|                                                                                                  |
| <---------------------- BLAKE ---------------------> <-- CLARK ->   <-------- JONES ----------> |
| |                                                  | |          |   |                         | |
| |<-ALLEN-> <-JAMES-> <-MARTIN-> <-TURNER-> <-WARD->| |<-MILLER->|   |<-- FORD--> <--SCOTT---> | |
| ||       | |       | |        | |        | |      || ||        ||   ||         | |          | | |
| ||       | |       | |        | |        | |      || ||        ||   ||<-SMITH->| |<-ADAMS-> | | |
| ||       | |       | |        | |        | |      || ||        ||   |||       || ||       | | | |
                                           1 1      11 11        11   112       22 22       2 2 2 2
1 23       4 5       6 7        8 9        0 1      23 45        67   890       12 34       5 6 7 8
The numbers corresponding to the left arnd right edges of each umbrella are what I called ns_low and ns_high in the table. Each employyes ns_low and ns_high numbers will be inside the range of each of his ancestors ns_low and ns_high.
To find the ancestors of a given node in the nested set model you can do this:
SELECT   a.empno, a.ename, a.ns_low, a.ns_high
FROM   emp a
JOIN      emp d ON d.ns_low BETWEEN a.ns_low
                                AND      a.ns_high
WHERE     d.ename IN ('ADAMS')
ORDER BY d.ename
,         a.ns_low
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Both the Lineage and Nested Sets models can be very difficult to maintain if the hierarchy is re-organized.
I'd like to repeat some of the warnings that others have made. You could write separate code for each system (Oracle, SQL Server, ...) that you want to run in, and the code for each system will be more or less different. You're looking for some code that will get the same results in all systems. That code will be more complicated that the most complicated of the single-system versions, and it will be sloweer than the slwoest of the single-system versions. You're giving up a lot of functionality, and probably also ease of maintenance, by writing code that has to work on multiple systems without changes.
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AS
WITH    connect_by_results AS
    SELECT empno, mgr, ename
    ,       LEVEL   AS lvl
    ,       ROWNUM AS r_num
    ,       SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH (empno, '/') || '/'   AS lineage
    FROM scott.emp
    START WITH mgr IS NULL
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,       (2 * r_num) - lvl            AS ns_low
,       (2 * r_num) + ( 2 * (
                                SELECT COUNT (*)
                                FROM    connect_by_results
                                WHERE   lineage LIKE '%/' || cbr.empno || '/%'
                    - (lvl + 1)      AS ns_high
FROM connect_by_results   cbr
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P SUM(AMT1) SUM(AMT2) SUM(AMT3)
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Whenever you have a question, it helps to post:
(1) The version of Oracle (and any other relevant software) you're using
(2) A little sample data (just enough to show what the problem is) from all the relevant tables
(3) The results you want from that data
(4) Your best attempt so far (formatted) I don't believe the unformated code you posted is what you're really running, since it has a syntax error ("... WHERE START WITH ..."). Please post code that really works with the sample data you posrted.
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Formatted tabular output is okay for (3). Type these 6 characters
{code}
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it only performs a hierarchical join for a single child-parent relationshipBeg to differ.
Oracle Database 10g Release 10.2.0.2.0 - Production
SQL> CREATE TABLE context_mapping (
2     id NUMBER(38),
3     context_item VARCHAR2(30),
4     id_1 NUMBER(38),
5     id_2 NUMBER(38),
6     id_3 NUMBER(38),
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SQL> INSERT INTO context_mapping VALUES (8, 'P_EIT_VALUE', 2, 1, NULL, NULL, NULL);
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SQL> INSERT INTO context_mapping VALUES (9, 'P_TRI_TABLE', 4, 6, 7, 8, NULL);
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SQL> INSERT INTO context_mapping VALUES (12, 'P_PRICE2', 6, 10, 6, NULL, NULL);
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2 FROM   context_mapping
3 START WITH id = 12
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5 ORDER BY id DESC;
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        12 P_PRICE2                                6         10          6
        10 P_TRI                                   9
         9 P_TRI_TABLE                             4          6          7          8
         8 P_EIT_VALUE                             2          1
         7 P_IDE_VALUE                             2          1
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         4 P_AGI_ID                                3
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Ah excellent thank you.
I've modified it to there are now multiple (well only four for now until I get this in better shape) indexes for finding a scene. And assigning each block to a new row.
I only have one slight reservation about this. If I create 10 rows, it totally works, most of the time we'll only shoot three scenes a day so it's just blank space... However Murphy's law will inevitable raise its ugly head and put me in a situation where we are shooting 11 scenes in a day.
For countif, I think I get what you mean... Kinda. Basicially I would create a cell which combines the character strings from each scene into one long scene. Then I would have 100 extra cells (Lets say 100 so I'll never run out) each linked to the cast list, using the character name as a variable. These cells will each parse through the string to find their character name. If it appears then a true value comes up. This will remove duplicates as each cell will only respond once. So if Alice appears in every scene shooting that day, the cell will still only light up once. Is that it.
One other question. Whenever I combine filled cells with blank cells. I usually gets the data from the filled cells, with a 0 for each blank cell. Usually this isn't a problem, but if I want to keep this flexible then I'll have quite a few blanks. The actor example above could result in 98 zeroes. Is there anyway to have blanks just not show up at all.
I'll email the spreadsheet in a moment, a lot of it is still rough and under construction, but you should be able to see where it's all going hopefully.
Thanks again, you have been extraordinarily helpful.

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