Bits of .NET

First of all, I must thank to Maulik Dhorajia for his great post. That post saved me a lot.

That’s the @Company table we will use:

And here is the SQL Query we need to use:

-- Working Example
;WITH CTECompany
AS
(
    SELECT 
        EmpID, 
        ParentID, 
        PersonName , 
        0 AS HLevel,
        CAST(RIGHT(REPLICATE('_',5) +  CONVERT(VARCHAR(20),EmpID),20) AS VARCHAR(MAX)) AS OrderByField
    FROM @Company
    WHERE ParentID IS NULL
    
    UNION ALL
    
    SELECT 
        C.EmpID, 
        C.ParentID, 
        C.PersonName , 
        (CTE.HLevel + 1) AS HLevel,
        CTE.OrderByField + CAST(RIGHT(REPLICATE('_',5) +  CONVERT(VARCHAR(20),C.EmpID),20) AS VARCHAR(MAX)) AS OrderByField
    FROM @Company C
    INNER JOIN CTECompany CTE ON CTE.EmpID = C.ParentID
    WHERE C.ParentID IS NOT NULL
)

-- Working Example
SELECT 
    EmpID
    , ParentID
    , HLevel
    , PersonName
    , (REPLICATE( '----' , HLevel ) + PersonName) AS Person
FROM CTECompany
ORDER BY OrderByField,PersonName;