Help with Oracle SQL query syntax

I think this should be close to what you want, although I can't test on Oracle right no.

SELECT pk1, LISTAGG(col1, ',') 
WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY pk1, col1) 
FROM table1
GROUP BY pk1
ORDER BY pk1;

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[~bp]

Thanks BP. There is not table2 in your query?

Sorry, in my query table 1 should have been table2.  No need for table1 that I could see.

~bp

Hi bp,
I also need table1 in the query as I need to display some other columns from that. Sorry for not mentioning it earlier. So here is the example output format:

table1.PK1,table1.COL1,table1.COL2,table2.VAL1,table2.VAL2,table2.VAL3...table2.VALN

Can you post some sample data and the expected output?

Does this help?

You cannot dynamically create columns at runtime.  You have to know the number of columns before you run the select.

Do you have a maximum number of orders per customer?

If you want a CSV for order numbers instead of individual columns ,we can work with that.

Give this a try, I think it should do the job.

  SELECT tab2.pk1 || ',' || 
         tab1.name || ',' || 
         tab1.city || ',' ||
         tab1.state || ',' || 
         LISTAGG(tab2.order_num, ',') WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY tab2.pk1, tab2.order_num) AS lineout
    FROM tab2 INNER JOIN tab1 ON tab1.pk1 = tab2.pk1
GROUP BY tab2.pk1,
         tab1.name,
         tab1.city,
         tab1.state
ORDER BY tab2.pk1,
         tab1.name,
         tab1.city,
         tab1.state;

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~bp

Works great. Thanks much.

Just curious, did you give my solution a try, and if so did it not meet your need for some reason?

~bp

Hi Bill,
For some reason, I am getting the error below:

ORA-00923: FROM keyword not found where expected
00923. 00000 -  "FROM keyword not found where expected"
*Cause:    
*Action:
Error at Line: 22 Column: 44

Odd, I just copied the query right out of the solution post above and ran it again here and got the following.

LINEOUT                                                                         
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
100,John,LA,CA,100001,100002,100003                                             
200,Mike,SD,CA,200001,200002                                                    
300,Bob,Akron,OH,300001,300002,300003,300004                                    

3 rows selected.

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No big deal, not complaining or anything, just wanted to share another (slightly simpler?) way to solve the problem.  Make sure you didn't accidentally mis-copy the query of change anything after copying it.  Can you post the exact query you ran there?

No matter what, glad you have something useful from other posts, I just knew I had tested it before posting so was curious if there was a problem.  I'm a curious sort :-)

~bp

Sure Bill. I will give this query another try and will let you know.
FYI, I need fixed number of columns (only three order numbers) so # of columns is not dynamic. Can you modify your query to reflect that and let me know?

Bill's post creates a CSV not individual columns.  If that is what you want then we can address how this question was closed.

If that isn't what you want, then why bother playing with it?

My guess for the reason it won't work for you is listagg was new to 11g.  If you are using an older version of the database, it won't work and you will have to use another method to create the CSV.

I prefer the XMLAGG trick shown here (unless you are running 9i):
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/24914739/In-Oracle-how-can-I-concatenate-multiple-results-returned-from-select-statement-into-a-comma-separated-string.html?anchorAnswerId=25864822#a25864822

>>I need fixed number of columns (only three order numbers) so # of columns is not dynamic. Can you modify your query to reflect that and let me know?

For a maximum of 3 columns

Change:
connect by level <= 10

to:
connect by level <= 3

and remove the MAX calls for columns 4-10.

If you want individual columns then my approach is not preferred, it's useful for combining values from different rows into a single column.  I took that approach because your original question said the following, although it now appears I may have taken that too literally...

I would like to write a SQL query that will return the following output in one row
PK1,VAL1,VAL2,VAL3...VALN