Search Asktom for STRAGG. A fantastic user defined aggregate function, well worth a public execute Anthony -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Lou Fangxin Sent: 08 August 2006 16:26 To: saibabu_d@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: How to "concat" row values into a single column? if running on 9i or above, PIPELINE function can be used to do this. On 7/25/06, Saibabu Devabhaktuni < saibabu_d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: How about something like this: create table test1 as select * from dba_objects; create or replace function test_f (vid in varchar2) return varchar2 as vout varchar2(50); begin for i in (select object_id from test1 where object_name=vid) loop vout := vout||' '||i.object_id; end loop; return vout; end; / select distinct object_name, test_f(object_name) from test1 where object_name='TEST_OBJ'; OBJECT_NAME NAME ------------------------------ ---------------------------------------- TEST_OBJ 2101 24011 24075 241258 You can use similar functionality in your case. Thanks, Sai. http://sai-oracle.blogspot.com RE: How to "concat" row values into a single column? * From: "Mark W. Farnham" <mwf@xxxxxxxx> * To: <Rich.Jesse@xxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:58:42 -0400 Do you mean: select to_char( a.at_id)||' '||to_char(alarm_interval)||' '||c3.email_address||' '||c4.email_address from alarm_type a, contact c3, contact c4 where a.at_id = 1 and c3.at_id = a.at_id and c4.at_id = a.at_id and c3.contact_id = 3 and c4.contact_id = 4; ? If you're at a sufficient RDBMS Level, you might profit from from alarm_type a, (select at_id,email_address from contact where contact_id = 3) c3, (select at_id,email_address from contact where contact_id = 4) c4 and losing the last two ands. (Although in a perfect CBO world it wouldn't matter). -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jesse, Rich Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 2:34 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: How to "concat" row values into a single column? Arg. I know I've seen this before and I may have actually done it before, but I'll be darned if I can remember how. In 9.2, I have two tables kinda like these: CREATE TABLE ALARM_TYPE ( AT_ID NUMBER NOT NULL, ALARM_INTERVAL NUMBER NOT NULL ) / Insert into ALARM_TYPE (AT_ID, ALARM_INTERVAL) Values (1, 10); COMMIT; CREATE TABLE CONTACT ( CONTACT_ID NUMBER NOT NULL, AT_ID NUMBER NOT NULL, EMAIL_ADDRESS VARCHAR2(200) NOT NULL ) / Insert into CONTACT (CONTACT_ID, AT_ID, EMAIL_ADDRESS) Values (3, 1, 'someone@xxxxxxxxxx'); Insert into CONTACT (CONTACT_ID, AT_ID, EMAIL_ADDRESS) Values (4, 1, 'else@xxxxxxxxxx '); COMMIT; I would like a query to return a single row: 1 10 someone@xxxxxxxxxx, else@xxxxxxxxxx I had tried fudging SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH and some of the XML functions, but I'm not having any luck. Something along those lines would be an ideal solution for me for this project. But since these are new tables, I'm not opposed to a structure change, although I'm not sure I want to go with the OO approach (e.g. VARRAY column for the email addresses). Of course, this is way-oversimplified for the sake of brevity. Anyone??? TIA! Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l <//www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l> -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l * References: o How to "concat" row values into a single column? + From: Jesse, Rich __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- Welcome! Home: http://www.IamDBA.com PLEASE NOTE: THE ABOVE MESSAGE WAS RECEIVED FROM THE INTERNET. On entering the GSI, this email was scanned for viruses by the Government Secure Intranet (GSi) virus scanning service supplied exclusively by Cable & Wireless in partnership with MessageLabs. In case of problems, please call your organisational IT Helpdesk. The MessageLabs Anti Virus Service is the first managed service to achieve the CSIA Claims Tested Mark (CCTM Certificate Number 2006/04/0007), the UK Government quality mark initiative for information security products and services. For more information about this please visit www.cctmark.gov.uk The original of this email was scanned for viruses by Government Secure Intranet (GSi) virus scanning service supplied exclusively by Cable & Wireless in partnership with MessageLabs. On leaving the GSI this email was certified virus free. The MessageLabs Anti Virus Service is the first managed service to achieve the CSIA Claims Tested Mark (CCTM Certificate Number 2006/04/0007), the UK Government quality mark initiative for information security products and services. For more information about this please visit www.cctmark.gov.uk