areas & subareas

wxdqz

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I'm trying to solve a problem... I have a site divided in areas. Each area has it's own id, and may have it's own sub-areas. Each sub-area has it's own sub-areas, etc...

My will is to return the areas in some cascade order... I can do it recursively, but it generates too many queries. I was wondering how i could do this with only one query to the database.

Here's the structure i have so far:
AREAS (area_id INT; parent_id INT; root_id(??) INT; description VARCHAR(60));

Can anyone help?? Thanks in advance...

PS: I think this would very similar to a threaded forum...
 
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