[sql] SQL recursive query on self referencing table (Oracle)

It's a little on the cumbersome side, but I believe this should work (without the extra join). This assumes that you can choose a character that will never appear in the field in question, to act as a separator.

You can do it without nesting the select, but I find this a little cleaner that having four references to SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH.

select id, 
       parent_id, 
       case 
         when lvl <> 1 
         then substr(name_path,
                     instr(name_path,'|',1,lvl-1)+1,
                     instr(name_path,'|',1,lvl)
                      -instr(name_path,'|',1,lvl-1)-1) 
         end as name 
from (
  SELECT id, parent_id, sys_connect_by_path(name,'|') as name_path, level as lvl
  FROM tbl 
  START WITH id = 1 
  CONNECT BY PRIOR id = parent_id)

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