例1
select employee_id, first_name,last_name,manager_id from employees start with employee_id=100 connect by prior employee_id=manager_id
1 Steven King 2 -Neena Kochhar 3 --Nancy Greenberg 4 ---Daniel Faviet 4 ---John Chen ...
例2
create table my_system_menu ( menu_id number, title varchar2(100), parent_id number, constraint my_system_menu_pk primary key (menu_id ), constraint my_system_menu_fk1 FOREIGN key( parent_id) references my_system_menu(menu_id) ); insert into my_system_menu values (1,'Banner',null); insert into my_system_menu values (2,'Student',1); insert into my_system_menu values (3,'Course Catalog',2); insert into my_system_menu values (4,'Class Schedule',2); insert into my_system_menu values (5,'General Person',2); insert into my_system_menu values (6,'Faculty Load',2); insert into my_system_menu values (7,'Location Management ',2); insert into my_system_menu values (8,'Basic Course Information',3); insert into my_system_menu values (9,'Course Detail Information',3); insert into my_system_menu values (10,'Course Registration Restrictions',3); commit;
select level, case when level=1 then title when level>1 then lpad (title,length(title)+level-1, '-') end tree from my_system_menu start with menu_id=1 connect by prior menu_id=parent_id order by menu_id