How to do this self-join??

[al]

Greetings,

Would be thankful for your kind help. I have a table (Northwind
employees table). In the employees table, a column called ReportsTo
which lists the EmployeeID, int data type, of the manager of an
employee.This ReportsTo column is basically the EmployeeID column:

EmployeeID Title ReportsTo FirstName SecondName ......
......
1 Manager 4 Steven Buchan
2 Sale Rep. 1 Janet Leverling
3 Clerk 1 Ropert King
4 Presedint Null Andrew Fuller

My question is how can I get the column ReportsTo to include first and
second name, instead of numbers (employeeid).

What I want is something like this(firsname, lastname OR lastname,
firstname for the ReportsTo columen):

EmployeeID Title ReportsTo FirstName SecondName
.... ...
1 Manager Andrew Fuller Steven Buchan
2 Sale Rep. Steven Buchan Janet Leverling
3 Clerk Steven Buchan Ropert King
4 Presedint Null Andrew Fuller

MTIA,
Grawsha

[John Gilson]

"al" <gr*********@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Greetings,

Would be thankful for your kind help. I have a table (Northwind
employees table). In the employees table, a column called ReportsTo
which lists the EmployeeID, int data type, of the manager of an
employee.This ReportsTo column is basically the EmployeeID column:

EmployeeID Title ReportsTo FirstName SecondName ......
.....
1 Manager 4 Steven Buchan
2 Sale Rep. 1 Janet Leverling
3 Clerk 1 Ropert King
4 Presedint Null Andrew Fuller

My question is how can I get the column ReportsTo to include first and
second name, instead of numbers (employeeid).

What I want is something like this(firsname, lastname OR lastname,
firstname for the ReportsTo columen):

EmployeeID Title ReportsTo FirstName SecondName
... ...
1 Manager Andrew Fuller Steven Buchan
2 Sale Rep. Steven Buchan Janet Leverling
3 Clerk Steven Buchan Ropert King
4 Presedint Null Andrew Fuller

MTIA,
Grawsha

SELECT E1.EmployeeID,
E1.Title,
E2.FirstName + ' ' + E2.LastName AS ReportsTo,
E1.FirstName,
E1.LastName
FROM Northwind..Employees AS E1
LEFT OUTER JOIN
Northwind..Employees AS E2
ON E2.EmployeeID = E1.ReportsTo

Regards,
jag

[al]

"John Gilson" <ja*@acm.org> wrote in message news:<C9*********************@twister.nyc.rr.com>. ..

"al" <gr*********@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:66**************************@posting.google.c om...

Greetings,

Would be thankful for your kind help. I have a table (Northwind
employees table). In the employees table, a column called ReportsTo
which lists the EmployeeID, int data type, of the manager of an
employee.This ReportsTo column is basically the EmployeeID column:

EmployeeID Title ReportsTo FirstName SecondName ......
.....
1 Manager 4 Steven Buchan
2 Sale Rep. 1 Janet Leverling
3 Clerk 1 Ropert King
4 Presedint Null Andrew Fuller

My question is how can I get the column ReportsTo to include first and
second name, instead of numbers (employeeid).

What I want is something like this(firsname, lastname OR lastname,
firstname for the ReportsTo columen):

EmployeeID Title ReportsTo FirstName SecondName
... ...
1 Manager Andrew Fuller Steven Buchan
2 Sale Rep. Steven Buchan Janet Leverling
3 Clerk Steven Buchan Ropert King
4 Presedint Null Andrew Fuller

MTIA,
Grawsha

SELECT E1.EmployeeID,
E1.Title,
E2.FirstName + ' ' + E2.LastName AS ReportsTo,
E1.FirstName,
E1.LastName
FROM Northwind..Employees AS E1
LEFT OUTER JOIN
Northwind..Employees AS E2
ON E2.EmployeeID = E1.ReportsTo

Regards,
jag

Jag,

Thanks for your help. Does this solution work with CommandBuilder in ADO.NET?

Grawsha