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jonathan-dufaul
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Resolved! How can I look up the first ancestor (person,first_ancestor) of a record from a table that has (child,parent) records?

I have a table that looks like this:/* input */ -- | parent | child | -- | ------ | ----- | -- | 1 | 2 | -- | 2 | 3 | -- | 3 | 4 | -- | 5 | 6 | -- | 6 | 7 | -- | 8 | 9 | -- | 10 | 11 |and I...

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JGil
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@Landan George​ Hey, I am looking into same issue, but when I execute what's suggested in the post for CTE_Recursive https://medium.com/globant/how-to-implement-recursive-queries-in-spark-3d26f7ed3bc9 I get errorError in SQL statement: AnalysisExcep...

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Phani1
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Parent Hierarchy Queries/ Path Function /Recursive CTE's

Problem Statement:We have a scenario where we get the data from the source in the format of (in actual 20 Levels and number of fields are more than 4 but for ease of understanding let’s consider below)The actual code involved 20 levels of 4-5 fields ...

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daniel_sahal
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I don't think that we have anything similar as a built-in function. You'll need to write some custom code to achieve that.

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