for a simple data structure such as so:

ID    parentID    Text        Price
1                 Root
2     1           Flowers
3     1           Electro
4     2           Rose        10
5     2           Violet      5
6     4           Red Rose    12
7     3           Television  100
8     3           Radio       70
9     8           Webradio    90

For reference, the hierarchy tree looks like this:

ID    Text        Price
1     Root
|2    Flowers
|-4   Rose        10
| |-6 Red Rose    12
|-5   Violet      5
|3    Electro
|-7   Television  100
|-8   Radio       70
  |-9 Webradio    90

I'd like to count the number of children per level. So I would get a new column "NoOfChildren" like so:

ID    parentID    Text        Price  NoOfChildren
1                 Root               8
2     1           Flowers            3
3     1           Electro            3
4     2           Rose        10     1
5     2           Violet      5      0
6     4           Red Rose    12     0
7     3           Television  100    0
8     3           Radio       70     1
9     8           Webradio    90     0

I read a few things about hierarchical data, but I somehow get stuck on the multiple inner joins on the parentIDs. Maybe someone could help me out here.

moon