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How to use Oracle aggregate function XMLAGG ?
You want to use Oracle aggregate function XMLAGG for string aggregation.?
Solution:
Example
SELECT class_id, rtrim(xmlagg(xmlelement(x,first_name || ' ' || last_name , ', ') ORDER BY first_name).extract('//text()').getstringval(), ',') AS "names" FROM students GROUP BY class_id;
Output
CL_MATH ANDERSON DANIEL, MARTINEZ CHRISTOPHER, TAYLOR PAUL, THOMAS MARK, WILSON THOMAS, CL_PHY RODRIGUEZ JOSEPH, INS_CHAIRMAN SMITH JAMES, INS_STAFF BROWN MICHAEL, DAVIS RICHARD, GARCIA CHARLES, JONES WILLIAM, MILLER DAVID, INS_VP JOHNSON JOHN, WILLIAMS ROBERT,
In the above statement xmlelement will create an XML element called x (name it what ever you want) containing a concatenation of the first_name, last_name and a comma.
The xmlagg creates an XML snippet that is an aggregation of the x XML elements. “.extract(‘//text()’)” get rids of xml keeping the string alone. Finally we will remove trailing comma in the aggregated text using rtrim.
If you want to use CLOB rather than a string then see below code. The function xmlparse takes xml as text and transforms it to XMLType datatype.
Example
SELECT class_id, xmlagg(xmlparse(content first_name || ' ' || last_name wellformed) ORDER BY first_name).getclobval() FROM students GROUP BY class_id;
Output
CL_MATH ANDERSON DANIELMARTINEZ CHRISTOPHERTAYLOR PAULTHOMAS MARKWILSON THOMAS CL_PHY RODRIGUEZ JOSEPH INS_CHAIRMAN SMITH JAMES INS_STAFF BROWN MICHAELDAVIS RICHARDGARCIA CHARLESJONES WILLIAMMILLER DAVID INS_VP JOHNSON JOHNWILLIAMS ROBERT
The result is a CLOB which is displayed in the output. If the database version is 18c or later then json_arrayagg can be used as an alternative to xmlagg.
Example
SELECT class_id, replace(JSON_ARRAYAGG(first_name || ' ' || last_name ORDER BY class_id RETURNING CLOB),'"','') AS retunring_val FROM students GROUP BY class_id;
Output
CL_MATH [WILSON THOMAS,THOMAS MARK,TAYLOR PAUL,ANDERSON DANIEL,MARTINEZ CHRISTOPHER] CL_PHY [RODRIGUEZ JOSEPH] INS_CHAIRMAN [SMITH JAMES] INS_STAFF [BROWN MICHAEL,GARCIA CHARLES,DAVIS RICHARD,MILLER DAVID,JONES WILLIAM] INS_VP [JOHNSON JOHN,WILLIAMS ROBERT]
Data Preparation: Data used for the problem is shown below.
Example
DROP TABLE students; COMMIT; CREATE TABLE students ( student_id NUMBER(6) , first_name VARCHAR2(20) , last_name VARCHAR2(25) , email VARCHAR2(40) , phone_number VARCHAR2(20) , join_date DATE , class_id VARCHAR2(20) , fees NUMBER(8,2) , professor_id NUMBER(6) , department_id NUMBER(4) ) ;
Example
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX stu_id_pk ON students (student_id) ;
INSERT INTO students VALUES (100,'SMITH','JAMES','SMITH.JAMES@notreal.com','111.111.1245',TO_DATE('17-06-2003','DD-MM-YYYY'),'INS_CHAIRMAN',24000,NULL,NULL);
INSERT INTO students VALUES (101,'JOHNSON','JOHN','JOHNSON.JOHN@notreal.com','111.111.1246',TO_DATE('21-09-2005','DD-MM-YYYY'),'INS_VP',17000,100,90);
INSERT INTO students VALUES (102,'WILLIAMS','ROBERT','WILLIAMS.ROBERT@notreal.com','111.111.1247',TO_DATE('13-01-2001','DD-MM-YYYY'),'INS_VP',17000,100,90);
INSERT INTO students VALUES (103,'BROWN','MICHAEL','BROWN.MICHAEL@notreal.com','111.111.1248',TO_DATE('03-01-2006','DD-MM-YYYY'),'INS_STAFF',9000,102,60);
INSERT INTO students VALUES (104,'JONES','WILLIAM','JONES.WILLIAM@notreal.com','111.111.1249',TO_DATE('21-05-2007','DD-MM-YYYY'),'INS_STAFF',6000,103,60);
INSERT INTO students VALUES (105,'MILLER','DAVID','MILLER.DAVID@notreal.com','111.111.1250',TO_DATE('25-06-2005','DD-MM-YYYY'),'INS_STAFF',4800,103,60);
INSERT INTO students VALUES (106,'DAVIS','RICHARD','DAVIS.RICHARD@notreal.com','111.111.1251',TO_DATE('05-02-2006','DD-MM-YYYY'),'INS_STAFF',4800,103,60);
INSERT INTO students VALUES (107,'GARCIA','CHARLES','GARCIA.CHARLES@notreal.com','111.111.1252',TO_DATE('07-02-2007','DD-MM-YYYY'),'INS_STAFF',4200,103,60);
INSERT INTO students VALUES (108,'RODRIGUEZ','JOSEPH','RODRIGUEZ.JOSEPH@notreal.com','111.111.1253',TO_DATE('17-08-2002','DD-MM-YYYY'),'CL_PHY',12008,101,100);
INSERT INTO students VALUES (109,'WILSON','THOMAS','WILSON.THOMAS@notreal.com','111.111.1254',TO_DATE('16-08-2002','DD-MM-YYYY'),'CL_MATH',9000,108,100);
INSERT INTO students VALUES (110,'MARTINEZ','CHRISTOPHER','MARTINEZ.CHRISTOPHER@notreal.com','111.111.1255',TO_DATE('28-09-2005','DD-MM-YYYY'),'CL_MATH',8200,108,100);
INSERT INTO students VALUES (111,'ANDERSON','DANIEL','ANDERSON.DANIEL@notreal.com','111.111.1256',TO_DATE('30-09-2005','DD-MM-YYYY'),'CL_MATH',7700,108,100);
INSERT INTO students VALUES (112,'TAYLOR','PAUL','TAYLOR.PAUL@notreal.com','111.111.1257',TO_DATE('07-03-2006','DD-MM-YYYY'),'CL_MATH',7800,108,100);
INSERT INTO students VALUES (113,'THOMAS','MARK','THOMAS.MARK@notreal.com','111.111.1258',TO_DATE('07-12-2007','DD-MM-YYYY'),'CL_MATH',6900,108,100);
COMMIT;
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