SQL Puzzle | The Hierarchy Spacing Puzzle – A SINGLE SELECT

In this puzzle you have to create two new columns from the existing columns. In the first column you have to remove the parents path from the child and prefix space to the child just to differentiate.
In the second column you just have to prefix space to the child just to differentiate. Please check out the sample input and the expected output. Can you do that in a SINGLE SELECT

Sample Input

Expected Output

Script – DDL and INSERT Sample Data

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CREATE TABLE Prima
(
	 Id INT
	,Gr VARCHAR(10)
	,Val INT
)
GO

INSERT INTO Prima VALUES 
(1,'a',10),
(2,'b',15),
(3,'c',45)

CREATE TABLE Limits
(
	 Gr VARCHAR(10)
	,StartLimit INT
	,EndLimit INT
)
GO

INSERT INTO Limits VALUES 
('a',0,9),
('a',20,100),
('b',10,14),
('b',20,100),
('c',10,50)
GO

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SOLUTION 1

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SELECT h.* 		
	, CONCAT
	(
		SPACE(10 * ( LEN((LEFT(Vals, LEN(Vals) - u))) 
- LEN(REPLACE((LEFT(Vals, LEN(Vals) - u)),'\',''))))
		,' '
	,RIGHT(Vals, u)
	) Treestructure1	
	,CONCAT
	(
		SPACE(10 * ( LEN((LEFT(Vals, LEN(Vals) - u))) 
- LEN(REPLACE((LEFT(Vals, LEN(Vals) - u)),'\',''))))
		,
		' '
		,
		Vals
	) Treestructure2
FROM Hierarchies h
CROSS APPLY (VALUES(CHARINDEX('\',REVERSE(Vals)))) t(u)

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OUTPUT – 1

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