Oracle-L: RE: simple problem

From: Jamadagni, Rajendra <Rajendra.Jamadagni_at_espn.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:48:28 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004BA058.20020820084828@fatcity.com>

Yes you can,

create or replace type mystrtype is table of varchar2(100)
/

select cast(multiset(sod.description) as mystrtype) from so_trn_detail sod
where ...
/

Just make sure that the type will be able to hold the max description. BTW this works from 8i onwards ... You will have to parse the information, but it will do what you need it to do.

Raj

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-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 12:34 PM
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I dont think any generic SQL query can do it. What you can do is write a function which takes the SO_TRN_ID as an argument and returns the concatenated string.

Then you can use the function to get the string.

SELECT function_name(SO_TRN_ID) as DESCRIPTION from dual;

HTH
Naveen

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