Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 02/03/07 21:23

strawberry wrote:
> On Feb 3, 3:41 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> strawberry wrote:
>>>> Try asking in comp.databases.mysql.
>>> Oh, the irony of it.
>> And why is that? This can easily be done with recursive SQL. MySQL
>> doesn't support it yet, but there are ways to do it.
>>
>> But it wouldn't be appropriate for a PHP newsgroup.
>>
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>
> ?
> The OP originally posted 'accidentally' to comp.databases.mysql before
> quickly re-posting here -and hence, apparently 'multi-posting' - for
> which he was soundly chastised.
>

Ah, OK.

I can see from his original question he was asking how to do it in PHP.
But I think that was the wrong question. Just asking how to do it in
comp.databases.mysql could have given him an SQL answer.

But it's also why cross-posting is better than multi-posting.

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