Listagg Alternative in Oracle 10G

LISTAGG alternative in Oracle 10g

Try using XMLAGG like this:

select
    p.PeopleID,
    rtrim(xmlagg(xmlelement(e, s.SiteName, ',')).extract('//text()').getclobval(), ',')
from people p
join site s on p.SiteID = s.SiteID
group by p.PeopleID;

If you need the concatenation in a particular order, say increasing order of SiteId, then add an order by clause in the xmlagg:

select
    p.PeopleID,
    rtrim(xmlagg(xmlelement(e, s.SiteName, ',')
                   order by s.SiteId).extract('//text()').getclobval(), ',')
from people p
join site s on p.SiteID = s.SiteID
group by p.PeopleID;

EDIT:

If you want display result for all those people which are assigned to site 100:

select p.PeopleID,
    rtrim(xmlagg(
                xmlelement(e, s.SiteName, ',') order by s.SiteId
            ).extract('//text()').getclobval(), ',')
from people p
join site s on p.SiteID = s.SiteID
join (
    select distinct PeopleID
    from people
    where siteID = 1
    ) p2 on p.PeopleID = p2.PeopleID
group by p.PeopleID;

alternative to listagg in Oracle?

Use collect or write your own aggregation function.

listagg alternative in Oracle

I use the following user-defined function as suggested by Tom Kyte of asktom - performance is acceptable to me (although it will not work in Oracle 8). Can you try this ?

CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE t_string_agg AS OBJECT
(
  g_string  VARCHAR2(32767),

  STATIC FUNCTION ODCIAggregateInitialize(sctx  IN OUT  t_string_agg)
    RETURN NUMBER,

  MEMBER FUNCTION ODCIAggregateIterate(self   IN OUT  t_string_agg,
                                       value  IN      VARCHAR2 )
     RETURN NUMBER,

  MEMBER FUNCTION ODCIAggregateTerminate(self         IN   t_string_agg,
                                         returnValue  OUT  VARCHAR2,
                                         flags        IN   NUMBER)
    RETURN NUMBER,

  MEMBER FUNCTION ODCIAggregateMerge(self  IN OUT  t_string_agg,
                                     ctx2  IN      t_string_agg)
    RETURN NUMBER
);
/
SHOW ERRORS

CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE BODY t_string_agg IS
  STATIC FUNCTION ODCIAggregateInitialize(sctx  IN OUT  t_string_agg)
    RETURN NUMBER IS
  BEGIN
    sctx := t_string_agg(NULL);
    RETURN ODCIConst.Success;
  END;

  MEMBER FUNCTION ODCIAggregateIterate(self   IN OUT  t_string_agg,
                                       value  IN      VARCHAR2 )
    RETURN NUMBER IS
  BEGIN
    SELF.g_string := self.g_string || ',' || value;
    RETURN ODCIConst.Success;
  END;

  MEMBER FUNCTION ODCIAggregateTerminate(self         IN   t_string_agg,
                                         returnValue  OUT  VARCHAR2,
                                         flags        IN   NUMBER)
    RETURN NUMBER IS
  BEGIN
    returnValue := RTRIM(LTRIM(SELF.g_string, ','), ',');
    RETURN ODCIConst.Success;
  END;

  MEMBER FUNCTION ODCIAggregateMerge(self  IN OUT  t_string_agg,
                                     ctx2  IN      t_string_agg)
    RETURN NUMBER IS
  BEGIN
    SELF.g_string := SELF.g_string || ',' || ctx2.g_string;
    RETURN ODCIConst.Success;
  END;
END;
/
SHOW ERRORS

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION string_agg (p_input VARCHAR2)
RETURN VARCHAR2
PARALLEL_ENABLE AGGREGATE USING t_string_agg;
/
SHOW ERRORS

Application,

COLUMN employees FORMAT A50

SELECT deptno, string_agg(ename) AS employees
FROM   emp
GROUP BY deptno;

    DEPTNO EMPLOYEES
---------- --------------------------------------------------
        10 CLARK,KING,MILLER
        20 SMITH,FORD,ADAMS,SCOTT,JONES
        30 ALLEN,BLAKE,MARTIN,TURNER,JAMES,WARD

3 rows selected.

Oracle SQL: Alternative to aggregate large texts (when exceeding Listagg limit)

One of possible method.

select xmlagg(xmlelement(xxx,'ITEM NO.: ' || m.ITEM || 
        ' -nl-ARTICLE: ' || a.ARTICLE || 
        ' -nl-NET: ' || m.NET || 
        ' -nl-TAX: ' || NVL(m.TAX, 0) || 
        ' -nl-GROSS: ' || (m.NET + m.TAX),
        ' -nl--nl-'||',<-separator').extract('//text()') order m.S_ID).getClobval() from mytable
group by ...

2nd method.
oracle allows to creat own aggregation function user defined aggregation function

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