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Re: Concatanating results in one string

From: Joe Smith <nospam_at_nospam.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:48:40 +0100
Message-ID: <aqtos1$33m$1@news-reader11.wanadoo.fr>


Thanks for the answer. In fact, I'm imposed to return the results (e-mail addresses of a particular user) in one single value, in the form of a comma separated list.

Bye!

"Alan Mills" <Alan.Mills_at_nospamservices.fujitsu.com> a écrit dans le message de news: aqtku6$dut$1_at_news.icl.se...
>
> "Joe Smith" <nospam_at_nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:aqtjts$s97$1_at_news-reader10.wanadoo.fr...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to do a query to return all the values in one column
> concatanated
> > as if it was only one result:
> >
> > Field
> > ====
> > "A"
> > "B"
> > "C"
> >
> >
> > select ??? from table ==> "ABC"
> >
> > Is this possible?
> > I've looked the SQL reference, but I can't find anything there (the
concat
> > function doesn't seem to allow this, does it?)
> >
> > I'm using Oracle 8.1.7
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> I've never seen anythign that would do that! you'll have to write a
PL/SQL
> function/procedure to do it prgramatically. Pass the query to it as a
> parameter and it can return (using dynamic sql) the results you're after.
I
> suppose you could also do the usual gubbnins to ensure you can call the
> function from within SQL statements.
>
> I'm curious as to what the application is though. Why do you have one
data
> item spread over multiple records?
>
>
Received on Wed Nov 13 2002 - 08:48:40 CST

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