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QUESTION POSED ON: 26 January 2006
The following query is in Oracle. Suppose you have a table which has only two columns, namely locid (not primary) and place, with the following data:
select * from loc locid place 1 Mumbai 1 Chennai 2 Hyderaba 2 Varanasi 3 New York 3 Paris 3 London 3 Tokyo 4 Beijing
Then, I want the output as following:
column 1 column 2 1 Mumbai,Chennai 2 Hydrabad, Varansi 3 New York, Paris, London, Tokyo 4 Beijing
In Oracle, which query should I run to get the output as above? Firstly I don't want to use any advanced feature of Oracle 9i. Is it possible using plain SQL only? If that's not possible then I won't mind advanced features being used as well.

You will need to write a user-defined function with a VARRAY or DECODE for this.

Something like this might work:

create or replace function
   concat( cur sys_refcursor )
return    varchar2
is
   retval varchar2(32767);
   hold   varchar2(80);

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