Showing posts with label dynamic concatenation of columns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dynamic concatenation of columns. Show all posts

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Dynamic concatenation of columns in oracle for a given Table

We can use the following anonymous block to concatenate all the columns in a given table.

The below anonymous block takes tablename as a parameter and gives all column names separated by comma.


declare
v_RETURN_STRING varchar2(200);
begin
for rec in (select column_name
from user_tab_columns
where table_name = 'TABLE_NAME')
loop
if v_RETURN_STRING is null then
v_RETURN_STRING := rec.column_name;
else
v_RETURN_STRING := v_RETURN_STRING ||','|| rec.column_name;
end if;
end loop;
dbms_output.put_line(v_RETURN_STRING);
end;