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Mike Hillyer’s latest article in the MySQL.com developer zone explains how to use the Nested Set model for representing hierarchical data, and the advantages it has over the Adjacency List model. SQL Nested Sets were one of the things I forgot immediately after doing the relevent exams at school so Mike’s article was a welcome [...]