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October 04, 2022

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How to concatenate rows into a comma-separated list with LISTAGG
Often you need to combine rows into a single comma-separated list. You can do this in Oracle Database with the SQL standard function LISTAGG.

Watch the recording to learn how to use LISTAGG to concatenate values. Highlights include:

- 04:00 LISTAGG syntax
- 05:40 GROUP BY vs PARTITION BY (aggregate vs analytic functions)
- 10:00 Why WITHIN GROUP syntax
- 14:10 Demo of LISTAGG
- 24:30 Ways to create a "running total" or "sliding window" of CSV values
- 31:50 Handling ORA-1489 errors with LISTAGG
- 41:30 Demo of handling ORA-1489 errors
- 47:50 Demo of ways to deduplicate values in the return string
- 54:50 Recap

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