Oracle aggregate functions and how to concatenate all values in column - sql

Question

All,
My Oracle Database is version 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.5.0 - 64bit
I have the following statement which usefully gets me the max (or min or count etc) values in each case as expected however what I would like is to get and to concatenate all of the values rather than the max, min or count - is there an elegant way to do this please ?
SELECT lla.id,
max(decode(lla.attrid, 2, lla.valstr, null)) "Attribute Name 2",
min(decode(lla.attrid, 3, lla.valstr, null)) "Attribute Name 3",
count(decode(lla2.attrid, 5, lla2.valstr, null)) "Attribute Name 5"
FROM llattrdata lla, llattrdata lla2
WHERE lla.id = lla2.id
AND lla.defid = 111111 --category id 1
AND lla2.defid = 222222 --category id 2
AND lla.id = 48212327 and lla2.id = 48212327
GROUP BY lla.id
Hoping for a row that looks something like this:
12121212 | fred, jack, gill | 56 | 29,10
To be clearer it is the values that the 'Attribute Name 3' (for example) contains that I want to see all of and not just the max or the minimum. In other words for that attribute I can get the max or the min value or even the count but cannot see a way to get all of the values ? In other words I can get 10 as the min and 29 as the max - even 2 as the count but not 29 and 10 in the same column !
Many thanks in advance,

Answer 1

SELECT e.department_id,
listagg(e.first_name) within group (order by e.department_id) "Attribute Name 2"
FROM employees e join
departments d
on e.department_id = d.department_id
GROUP BY e.department_id;
you can use above example and alter your query

Answer 2

Try this:
SELECT lla.id || ' | ' ||
max(decode(lla.attrid, 2, lla.valstr, null)) || ' | ' ||
min(decode(lla.attrid, 3, lla.valstr, null)) || ' | ' ||
count(decode(lla2.attrid, 5, lla2.valstr, null))
FROM llattrdata lla, llattrdata lla2
WHERE lla.id = lla2.id
AND lla.defid = 111111 --category id 1
AND lla2.defid = 222222 --category id 2
AND lla.id = 48212327 and lla2.id = 48212327
GROUP BY lla.id

Answer 3

Use wmsys.wm_concat function learn more here about it. This is a non-documented function in Oracle 10.
It returns you comma-separated list, you can use replace function to replace comma with the thing you need.
Unfortunately this function does not have order clause so you cannot specify the order in the list.
EDIT:
As far as this function is not available for you, you can simply create it:
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE wm_concat_impl
AUTHID CURRENT_USER
AS OBJECT (
curr_str VARCHAR2 (32767),
STATIC FUNCTION odciaggregateinitialize (sctx IN OUT wm_concat_impl)
RETURN NUMBER,
MEMBER FUNCTION odciaggregateiterate (
SELF IN OUT wm_concat_impl,
p1 IN VARCHAR2
)
RETURN NUMBER,
MEMBER FUNCTION odciaggregateterminate (
SELF IN wm_concat_impl,
returnvalue OUT VARCHAR2,
flags IN NUMBER
)
RETURN NUMBER,
MEMBER FUNCTION odciaggregatemerge (
SELF IN OUT wm_concat_impl,
sctx2 IN wm_concat_impl
)
RETURN NUMBER
);
/
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE BODY wm_concat_impl
IS
STATIC FUNCTION odciaggregateinitialize (sctx IN OUT wm_concat_impl)
RETURN NUMBER
IS
BEGIN
sctx := wm_concat_impl (NULL);
RETURN odciconst.success;
END;
MEMBER FUNCTION odciaggregateiterate (
SELF IN OUT wm_concat_impl,
p1 IN VARCHAR2
)
RETURN NUMBER
IS
BEGIN
IF (curr_str IS NOT NULL)
THEN
curr_str := curr_str || ',' || p1;
ELSE
curr_str := p1;
END IF;
RETURN odciconst.success;
END;
MEMBER FUNCTION odciaggregateterminate (
SELF IN wm_concat_impl,
returnvalue OUT VARCHAR2,
flags IN NUMBER
)
RETURN NUMBER
IS
BEGIN
returnvalue := curr_str;
RETURN odciconst.success;
END;
MEMBER FUNCTION odciaggregatemerge (
SELF IN OUT wm_concat_impl,
sctx2 IN wm_concat_impl
)
RETURN NUMBER
IS
BEGIN
IF (sctx2.curr_str IS NOT NULL)
THEN
SELF.curr_str := SELF.curr_str || ',' || sctx2.curr_str;
END IF;
RETURN odciconst.success;
END;
END;
/
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION wm_concat (p1 VARCHAR2)
RETURN VARCHAR2
AGGREGATE USING wm_concat_impl;
/
The query is taken from this website, it is, unfortunately, in Russian, but just use this custom aggregate function for your purposes.

Answer 4

I had the same problem and used the STRAGG ( as in STRing AGGregate) function created by Tom Kyte.
https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:::::P11_QUESTION_ID:15637744429336
create or replace type stragg_type as object
(
string varchar2(4000),
static function ODCIAggregateInitialize
( sctx in out stragg_type )
return number ,
member function ODCIAggregateIterate
( self in out stragg_type ,
value in varchar2
) return number ,
member function ODCIAggregateTerminate
( self in stragg_type,
returnvalue out varchar2,
flags in number
) return number ,
member function ODCIAggregateMerge
( self in out stragg_type,
ctx2 in stragg_type
) return number
);
/
create or replace type body stragg_type
is
static function ODCIAggregateInitialize
( sctx in out stragg_type )
return number
is
begin
sctx := stragg_type( null ) ;
return ODCIConst.Success ;
end;
member function ODCIAggregateIterate
( self in out stragg_type ,
value in varchar2
) return number
is
begin
self.string := self.string || ',' || value ;
return ODCIConst.Success;
end;
member function ODCIAggregateTerminate
( self in stragg_type ,
returnvalue out varchar2 ,
flags in number
) return number
is
begin
returnValue := ltrim( self.string, ',' );
return ODCIConst.Success;
end;
member function ODCIAggregateMerge
( self in out stragg_type ,
ctx2 in stragg_type
) return number
is
begin
self.string := self.string || ctx2.string;
return ODCIConst.Success;
end;
end;
/
create or replace function stragg
( input varchar2 )
return varchar2
deterministic
parallel_enable
aggregate using stragg_type
;
/
Run the three create statements one after the other in sqlplus or sqldev. Now the stragg() function is created in your user schema. Then you can do:
SELECT lla.id,
max(decode(lla.attrid, 2, lla.valstr, null)) "Attribute Name 2",
STRAGG(decode(lla.attrid, 3, lla.valstr, null)) "Attribute Name 3 List",
count(decode(lla2.attrid, 5, lla2.valstr, null)) "Attribute Name 5"
FROM llattrdata lla, llattrdata lla2
WHERE lla.id = lla2.id
AND lla.defid = 111111 --category id 1
AND lla2.defid = 222222 --category id 2
AND lla.id = 48212327 and lla2.id = 48212327
GROUP BY lla.id