How to concatenate strings?

Question

I am in Oracle 10g and have the following table structure: I would, paragraph

I want to group by id and combine paragraphs. Each paragraph may contain 1,500 characters or more.

When I try to use the wm_concat function, it complains that the string buffer is too small. I actually tried many examples on the Oracle website and they all do not work with error. The string buffer is too small.

select id, wm_concat(paragraph) from paragraphs group by id

how can i solve this?

Answer 1

So, I assume that the error ORA-06502, and I see how you think that this does not apply to you in this situation.

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SQL> set serveroutput on
SQL>
SQL> create table tmp_test ( a varchar2(30) );

Table created.

SQL> insert into tmp_test
  2   select object_name
  3     from all_objects
  4          ;

81219 rows created.

SQL>  commit ;

Commit complete.

SQL>
SQL> declare
  2
  3    i integer := 1;
  4    k number(10);
  5    v_stragg varchar2(32767);
  6    v_test varchar2(32767) := '';
  7    start_time timestamp;
  8
  9  begin
 10
 11    select count(*)
 12      into k
 13      from tmp_test;
 14
 15    for i in 1 .. k loop
 16      start_time := systimestamp;
 17      begin
 18
 19        select wm_concat(a) into v_test
 20          from tmp_test
 21         where rownum < i;
 22
 23      exception when others then
 24        dbms_output.put_line('wm_concat: ' || length(v_test));
 25        dbms_output.put_line(systimestamp - start_time);
 26        exit;
 27     end;
 28    end loop;
 29
 30    for i in 1 .. k loop
 31      start_time := systimestamp;
 32
 33      select stragg(a) into v_test
 34        from tmp_test
 35       where rownum < i;
 36
 37      if v_test = 'OVERFLOW' then
 38        dbms_output.put_line('stragg: ' || length(v_stragg));
 39        dbms_output.put_line(systimestamp - start_time);
 40        exit;
 41      else v_stragg := v_test;
 42      end if;
 43    end loop;
 44  end;
 45  /
wm_concat: 3976
+000000000 00:00:00.005886000
stragg: 3976
+000000000 00:00:00.005707000

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

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