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Join the same table in mysql?

Im having the following table, each employee has a manager, if the guy is his own manager, then the managerid field is null, I want emid name and manager id, since the name of the result table is the employee

emid name managerid
1    raj  null
2    ram   1
3    ravi   null
4    arvind  3
5    rithu   2

and I want to get the result as

emid name managername
1    raj  raj
2    ram   raj
3    ravi   ravi
4    arvind  ravi
5    rithu   ram
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SELECT e1.emid, e1.name, COALESCE(e2.name, e1.name) AS managername
    FROM employee e1
        LEFT JOIN employee e2
            ON e1.managerid = e2.emid
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UNTESTED:

select a.name as name, b.name as managername from employee a inner join employee b on a.managerid=b.emid

This will only result in employees who actually have a manager. But here is how you join the table on your own.

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select
      e1.emid,
      e1.name,
      COALESCE(e2.name, e1.name ) ManagerName
   from 
      employees e1
         left join employees e2
            on e1.managerid = e2.emid
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SELECT emid, name,
       CASE WHEN s.managerid IS NULL THEN s.name ELSE m.name END managername
  FROM employees s
  LEFT JOIN employees m ON s.managerid = m.managerid

OR

SELECT emid, name, m.name managername
  FROM employees s
  LEFT JOIN employees m ON COALESCE(s.managerid, s.emid) = m.emid
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