Re: Merging results

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I'm not sure what you mean. If you mean you want to append a | to all rows the answer is simple...

select docnum||'|' from ...;

If you mean you want a new column for each row returned there is no way to do it in SQL without first knowing the number of rows being converted into columns. I think something like that would best be handled with a spreadsheet. You could probably do it in Unix too by piping the results of the query through awk and/or sed to build in "insert" or "create table as select... from dual" statement.

  Andreas Jung <ajung_at_sz-sb.de> wrote:
Assume a query like "select docnum from ....." returns a lot of rows. I need to concatenate the docnum column of all rows with "|" and store them in a single new row of another table. What is the fastest way to do this ?

Andreas

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<P>I'm not sure what you mean. If you mean you want to append a | to all rows the answer is simple...</P>

<P>select docnum||'|' from ...;</P>

<P>If you mean you want a new column for each row returned there is no way to do it in SQL without first knowing the number of rows being converted into columns. I think something like that would best be handled with a spreadsheet. You could probably do it in Unix too by piping the results of the query through awk and/or sed to build in "insert" or "create table as select... from dual" statement.</P>

<P>&nbsp; <B><I>Andreas Jung &lt;ajung_at_sz-sb.de&gt;</I></B> wrote: <BR>

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