Comments on: How to SELECT from a comma delimited list http://oraqa.com/2006/01/25/how-to-select-from-a-comma-delimited-list/ Oracle Question and Answer Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:31:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Eddie Awad http://oraqa.com/2006/01/25/how-to-select-from-a-comma-delimited-list/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Eddie Awad Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:53:36 +0000 http://oraqa.com/2006/01/25/how-to-select-from-a-comma-delimited-list/#comment-90 One more thing, if you want to bind (or parametrize) the (1,2,'a') in <i>select * from table (mytype(1,2,'a'))</i>, in addition to <a href="http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2006/01/how-can-i.html" rel="nofollow">Tom's example</a>, Francois has <a href="http://fdegrelle.over-blog.com/article-1694534.html" rel="nofollow">another nice one</a> too. One more thing, if you want to bind (or parametrize) the (1,2,’a') in select * from table (mytype(1,2,’a')), in addition to Tom’s example, Francois has another nice one too.

]]> By: Eddie Awad http://oraqa.com/2006/01/25/how-to-select-from-a-comma-delimited-list/comment-page-1/#comment-89 Eddie Awad Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:33:35 +0000 http://oraqa.com/2006/01/25/how-to-select-from-a-comma-delimited-list/#comment-89 By a comma delimited list, I meant exactly what most people think: a list of values seperated by a comma, like this '1,2,3,4' or like this 'a,b,c,d,' or like this '1,a,3,d'.... Yes, you won't select from ‘1,2,3,4′. But, what I was trying to show here was that, given a comma delimited list, you could transform each list element to a "row" using a collection type and a <a href="http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/appdev.920/a96624/08_subs.htm#19700" rel="nofollow">table function</a>. By a comma delimited list, I meant exactly what most people think: a list of values seperated by a comma, like this ‘1,2,3,4′ or like this ‘a,b,c,d,’ or like this ‘1,a,3,d’….

Yes, you won’t select from ‘1,2,3,4′. But, what I was trying to show here was that, given a comma delimited list, you could transform each list element to a “row” using a collection type and a table function.

]]> By: tkyte http://oraqa.com/2006/01/25/how-to-select-from-a-comma-delimited-list/comment-page-1/#comment-88 tkyte Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:59:05 +0000 http://oraqa.com/2006/01/25/how-to-select-from-a-comma-delimited-list/#comment-88 but that is not a comma delimited list. That is a collection. Entirely different beast alltogether. most people would be thinking of a comma delimited list like this: '1,2,3,4' that won't select from '1,2,3,4' http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2006/01/how-can-i.html but that is not a comma delimited list. That is a collection. Entirely different beast alltogether.

most people would be thinking of a comma delimited list like this:

‘1,2,3,4′

that won’t select from ‘1,2,3,4′

http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2006/01/how-can-i.html

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