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HardPrep Room Coding #5113

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SQLAlgorithms & data structuresSenior–Staff~16 min

Walk the management hierarchy from the top down. Return `name` and `depth`, where a person with no manager is depth 1. Order by depth then name.

What a strong answer looks like

Say what the query is meant to return before you write it, and name the shape of the answer: how many rows, grouped by what. Then watch the NULLs and the duplicates, because that is where most of these are lost.

Run onlyA query runs as one statement, so there is nothing to step through. Run it and read the rows.

0:00 of about 16 min

Expected, in this order

namedepth
Ada1
Jean1
Mel1
Grace2
Ivan2
Kay2

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