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LEVEL

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The LEVEL pseudo column allows for accessing the hierarchy level of the current row, or in other words, the depth of the current row in the hierarchy's tree.

SELECT child, parent, sys_connect_by_path(child, '/'), level FROM ( VALUES (1, null), (2, 1), (3, 2), (4, 1) ) AS t (child, parent) START WITH parent IS NULL CONNECT BY NOCYCLE PRIOR child = parent;
Field<Integer> child = field("child", INTEGER); Field<Integer> parent = field("parent", INTEGER); ctx.select( child, parent, sysConnectByPath(child, "/"), level()) .from(values( row(val(1), val(null, INTEGER)), row(2, 1), row(3, 2), row(4, 1)).as(table("t"), child, parent)) .startWith(parent.isNull()) .connectByNoCycle(prior(child).eq(parent)) .fetch();

The result being, for example

+-------+--------+---------------------+-------+ | child | parent | sys_connect_by_path | level | +-------+--------+---------------------+-------+ | 1 | {null} | /1 | 1 | | 2 | 1 | /1/2 | 2 | | 3 | 2 | /1/2/3 | 3 | | 4 | 1 | /1/4 | 2 | +-------+--------+---------------------+-------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

level()

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, DB2, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Informix, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, YugabyteDB

level

ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, BigQuery, ClickHouse, Databricks, DuckDB, Hana, MemSQL, Spanner, Vertica

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