How can I combine multiple rows into a comma-delimited list in Oracle? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Here is a simple way without stragg or creating a function.

create table countries ( country_name varchar2 (100));

insert into countries values ('Albania');

insert into countries values ('Andorra');

insert into countries values ('Antigua');


SELECT SUBSTR (SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH (country_name , ','), 2) csv
      FROM (SELECT country_name , ROW_NUMBER () OVER (ORDER BY country_name ) rn,
                   COUNT (*) OVER () cnt
              FROM countries)
     WHERE rn = cnt
START WITH rn = 1
CONNECT BY rn = PRIOR rn + 1;

CSV                                                                             
--------------------------
Albania,Andorra,Antigua                                                         

1 row selected.

As others have mentioned, if you are on 11g R2 or greater, you can now use listagg which is much simpler.

select listagg(country_name,', ') within group(order by country_name) csv
  from countries;

CSV                                                                             
--------------------------
Albania, Andorra, Antigua

1 row selected.

Answer 2

In this example we are creating a function to bring a comma delineated list of distinct line level AP invoice hold reasons into one field for header level query:

 FUNCTION getHoldReasonsByInvoiceId (p_InvoiceId IN NUMBER) RETURN VARCHAR2

  IS

  v_HoldReasons   VARCHAR2 (1000);

  v_Count         NUMBER := 0;

  CURSOR v_HoldsCusror (p2_InvoiceId IN NUMBER)
   IS
     SELECT DISTINCT hold_reason
       FROM ap.AP_HOLDS_ALL APH
      WHERE status_flag NOT IN ('R') AND invoice_id = p2_InvoiceId;
BEGIN

  v_HoldReasons := ' ';

  FOR rHR IN v_HoldsCusror (p_InvoiceId)
  LOOP
     v_Count := v_COunt + 1;

     IF (v_Count = 1)
     THEN
        v_HoldReasons := rHR.hold_reason;
     ELSE
        v_HoldReasons := v_HoldReasons || ', ' || rHR.hold_reason;
     END IF;
  END LOOP;

  RETURN v_HoldReasons;
END; 

Answer 3

you can try this query.

select listagg(country_name,',') within group (order by country_name) cnt 
from countries; 

Answer 4

I have always had to write some PL/SQL for this or I just concatenate a ',' to the field and copy into an editor and remove the CR from the list giving me the single line.

That is,

select country_name||', ' country from countries

A little bit long winded both ways.

If you look at Ask Tom you will see loads of possible solutions but they all revert to type declarations and/or PL/SQL

Ask Tom

Answer 5

SELECT REPLACE(REPLACE
((SELECT     TOP (100) PERCENT country_name + ', ' AS CountryName
FROM         country_name
ORDER BY country_name FOR XML PATH('')), 
'&<CountryName>', ''), '&<CountryName>', '') AS CountryNames