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Order hierarchy from recursive query results in SQL 2005

I have a Task table with the following columns (TaskOrder is designed to organize children within the parent, not the entire table):

Taskid
ParentTaskId
Taskname
Taskorder

I have this CTE request to return all rows:

with tasks (TaskId, ParentTaskId, [Name]) as
(
    select parentTasks.TaskId,
           parentTasks.ParentTaskId,
           parentTasks.[Name]
    from   Task parentTasks
    where  ParentTaskId is null

    union all

    select childTasks.TaskId,
           childTasks.ParentTaskId,
           childTasks.[Name]
    from   Task childTasks
    join   tasks
    on     childTasks.ParentTaskId = tasks.TaskId
)

select * from tasks

This query returns all tasks ordered by level, as you would expect. How can I change it to order the results in the hierarchy below?

- Task 1
- Task 1 Subtask 1
- Task 1 Subtask 2
- Task 2
- Task 3

Thanks.

Edit: The answer should work with an unlimited number of levels.

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4

Mark, node node, . "OrderBy" int varchar (3), , masterBank .

with tasks (TaskId, ParentTaskId, OrderBy, [Name], RowOrder) as
(
    select  parentTasks.TaskId,
            parentTasks.ParentTaskId,
            parentTasks.OrderBy,
            parentTasks.[Name],
            cast(parentTasks.OrderBy as varchar(30)) 'RowOrder'
    from    Task parentTasks
    where   ParentTaskId is null

    union all

    select  childTasks.TaskId,
            childTasks.ParentTaskId,
            childTasks.OrderBy,
            childTasks.[Name],
            cast(tasks.RowOrder + childTasks.OrderBy as varchar(30)) 'RowOrder'
    from    Task childTasks
    join    tasks
    on      childTasks.ParentTaskId = tasks.TaskId
)

select * from tasks order by RowOrder

:

TaskId  ParentTaskId  OrderBy  Name                              RowOrder
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
1       NULL          001      Task One                          001
15      1             001      Task One / Task One               001001
2       NULL          002      Task Two                          002
7       2             001      Task Two / Task One               002001
14      7             001      Task Two / Task One / Task One    002001001
8       2             002      Task Two / Task Two               002002
9       8             001      Task Two / Task Two / Task One    002002001
10      8             002      Task Two / Task Two / Task Two    002002002
11      8             003      Task Two / Task Two / Task Three  002002003
3       NULL          003      Task Three                        003
4       NULL          004      Task Four                         004
13      4             001      Task Four / Task One              004001
5       NULL          005      Task Five                         005
6       NULL          006      Task Six                          006    
17      NULL          007      Task Seven                        007
18      NULL          008      Task Eight                        008
19      NULL          009      Task Nine                         009
21      19            001      Task Nine / Task One              009001
20      NULL          010      Task Ten                          010

( 10 / 1000 node), OrderBy 0), .

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- :

with tasks (TaskId, ParentTaskId, [Name], TaskIdList) as
(
    select parentTasks.TaskId,
           parentTasks.ParentTaskId,
           parentTasks.[Name],
           parentTasks.TaskId
    from   Task parentTasks
    where  ParentTaskId is null

    union all

    select childTasks.TaskId,
           childTasks.ParentTaskId,
           childTasks.[Name],
           tasks.TaskIdList + '.' + childTasks.TaskId
    from   Task childTasks
    join   tasks
    on     childTasks.ParentTaskId = tasks.TaskId
)

select TaskId, ParentTaskId, [Name] from tasks
   order by TaskIdList

, , TaskId . , varchar, .

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, , :

select
 TaskId,
 ParentTaskId,
 [Name],
 COALESCE(ParentTaskId, TaskId) as groupField
from
 task
order by
 COALESCE(ParentTaskId, TaskId), ParentTaskId, TaskId
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Since you are not specifying "ORDER BY", how do you expect it to return them in any particular order (besides the hopes that the query analyzer will work in some expected way?).

If you want it in ParentTaskId, TaskId order, then select TaskId as ParentTaskId and NULL as TaskId in the first UNION element; then

ORDER BY ParentTaskId, TaskId?

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