How can multiple rows be concatenated into one in Oracle without creating a stored procedure? [duplicate]

From Oracle 11gR2, the LISTAGG clause should do the trick:

SELECT question_id,
       LISTAGG(element_id, ',') WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY element_id)
FROM YOUR_TABLE
GROUP BY question_id;

Beware if the resulting string is too big (more than 4000 chars for a VARCHAR2, for instance): from version 12cR2, we can use ON OVERFLOW TRUNCATE/ERROR to deal with this issue.

Leave a Comment