There is at least a good alternative, Frank Ingermann showed how to do something very similar when calculating the amount of ingredients required when baking a marble cake at a Firebird conference a few years ago. He used a recursive CTE. Whether a recursive CTE is simpler than a recursive procedure or not depends partly on implementation, partly on what you mean by simple and partly on who you ask. I liked Franks solution.

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Hello,

there is a table with all Material (stock), each one has a number. Now, in a second table there is listed the material that is a part of the Material.

For example:

Material ABC
Material BCD
Material XXX
Material OMV
Material KOM

Material OMV can be a Part of XXX and XXX a Part of ABC, of course the BCD can assigned to XXX, OMV, ABC.

Now I would like to know what is the total weight of the main material, (total weight from abc + amount of bcd + amount of xxx

ABC has 2 XXX, XXX has 2 OMV
Now we have 1 X ABC, 2 times XXX and 4 X OMV, OMV weighs 0,5kg and so on

The structure

Table Mainmaterial
PartNo
Description

Table Material
PartNo of Mainmaterial
PartNoA = assigned Material
Amount (of PartNoA)

Is there a simpler statement possible than my stored procedure (recursive)

Thank you.