How to select all parents of a node in a hierarchical mysql table?

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Published on 2010-04-07T18:07:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 18:23 UTC
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I have a MySQL table that represents data for a tree GUI component, here's the structure of my table:

treeTable ( 
  id INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, 
  parentId INT, 
  name VARCHAR(255) 
);

parentId is a self-referencing foreign key.

Now I want to write a stored procedure which gets a node id and returns a result set that contains that node and all of its parents.

For example, suppose that my table has filled with this data:

1, null, 'root'
2, 1   , 'level_1'
3, 2   , 'level_2'

Now I want to get all parent nodes of node 3 (nodes 1 and 2) and return a result set that contains all tree records. Can anybody help me please?

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