I'm not sure I understand your question.  In the example you give, you 
can get from the first table to the second table by just selecting the 
first two columns and ordering the result by product_id descending.  In 
other words your example doesn't use the product_id_map table at all.

-- Walt

On 06/20/2012 09:27 AM, Merrill Oveson wrote:
> People smarter than me:
>
> Suppose I have the following table:
>
> product_id | product | product_id_map
>      30         |   X        |  NULL
>      29         |   A        |  30
>      28         |   W       |  29
>
>
> so product 28 "maps" to product 29 and product 29 "maps" to product
> 30.  Product 30 is the beginning.
>
> The view I want would look like this:
>
> product_id | product
>      30         |   X
>      29         |   A
>      28         |   W
>
> Possible to create a view using cursors to do this?  Or is there an easier 
> way?

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