How can I combine multiple rows into a comma-delimited list in Oracle? [duplicate]

Question

The WM_CONCAT function (if included in your database, pre Oracle 11.2) or LISTAGG (starting Oracle 11.2) should do the trick nicely. For example, this gets a comma-delimited list of the table names in your schema:

select listagg(table_name, ', ') within group (order by table_name) 
  from user_tables;

or

select wm_concat(table_name) 
  from user_tables;

More details/options

Link to documentation

Here is a simple way without stragg or creating a function.

create table countries ( country_name varchar2 (100));

insert into countries values ('Albania');

insert into countries values ('Andorra');

insert into countries values ('Antigua');


SELECT SUBSTR (SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH (country_name , ','), 2) csv
      FROM (SELECT country_name , ROW_NUMBER () OVER (ORDER BY country_name ) rn,
                   COUNT (*) OVER () cnt
              FROM countries)
     WHERE rn = cnt
START WITH rn = 1
CONNECT BY rn = PRIOR rn + 1;

CSV                                                                             
--------------------------
Albania,Andorra,Antigua                                                         

1 row selected.

As others have mentioned, if you are on 11g R2 or greater, you can now use listagg which is much simpler.

select listagg(country_name,', ') within group(order by country_name) csv
  from countries;

CSV                                                                             
--------------------------
Albania, Andorra, Antigua

1 row selected.

You can use this as well:

SELECT RTRIM (
          XMLAGG (XMLELEMENT (e, country_name || ',')).EXTRACT ('//text()'),
          ',')
          country_name
  FROM countries;

For Oracle you can use LISTAGG

you can try this query.

select listagg(country_name,',') within group (order by country_name) cnt 
from countries; 

The fastest way it is to use the Oracle collect function.

You can also do this:

select *
  2    from (
  3  select deptno,
  4         case when row_number() over (partition by deptno order by ename)=1
  5             then stragg(ename) over
  6                  (partition by deptno
  7                       order by ename
  8                         rows between unbounded preceding
  9                                  and unbounded following)
 10         end enames
 11    from emp
 12         )
 13   where enames is not null

Visit the site ask tom and search on 'stragg' or 'string concatenation' . Lots of examples. There is also a not-documented oracle function to achieve your needs.

I needed a similar thing and found the following solution.

select RTRIM(XMLAGG(XMLELEMENT(e,country_name || ',')).EXTRACT('//text()'),',') country_name from