Re: Return rows as 1 line?

From: The Magnet <art_at_unsu.com>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 10:56:48 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <f3b25da0-d295-47e5-b179-63c07531db31_at_y12g2000vbg.googlegroups.com>

On May 18, 12:46 pm, joel garry <joel-ga..._at_home.com> wrote:
> On May 18, 1:38 am, bugbear <bugbear_at_trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> wrote:
>
> > Mladen Gogala wrote:
> > > To tell the truth, I don't really like Tom's answer, either. Oracle is a
> > > relational database. Relational databases should return the requested
> > > rows, as quickly as possible. Relational databases are not formatting
> > > tools. Formatting the output is a job for the client tools, not for
> > > Oracle.
>
> > Agreed.
>
> >     BugBear
>
> I don't agree that this is mere formatting, it is using the relational
> access tool and its non-relational extensions to transform tuples into
> a non-relational structure.
>
> I agree this would be some bad mojo if done thousands of time a
> minute.
>
> jg
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Well, looks like PL/SQL and maybe some collections. Sigh. Received on Tue May 18 2010 - 12:56:48 CDT