SYS_REFCURSOR within a stored function(eg. PL/SQL used instead of using SQL directly) might be used in order to get dynamically generated result set(eg. Dynamic Pivot). In this case, a string for Conditional Aggregation is generated :
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION get_passengers_rs RETURN SYS_REFCURSOR IS
v_recordset SYS_REFCURSOR;
v_sql VARCHAR2(32767);
v_str VARCHAR2(32767);
BEGIN
SELECT LISTAGG('MAX(CASE WHEN rn = '||lvl||' THEN age||''(''||passengers||'')'' END)
AS "Age'||lvl||'"' ,',') WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY 0)
INTO v_str
FROM ( SELECT level AS lvl
FROM dual
CONNECT BY level <= (SELECT MAX(COUNT(*)) FROM t GROUP BY ID ) ) t;
v_sql :=
'SELECT ID, '|| v_str ||'
FROM
(
SELECT t.*,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY ID ORDER BY 0) AS rn
FROM t
)
GROUP BY ID';
OPEN v_recordset FOR v_sql;
RETURN v_recordset;
END;
I also added the names of passengers in order to distinguish each data well.
Then run the below code :
VAR rc REFCURSOR
EXEC :rc := get_passengers_rs;
PRINT rc
from SQL Developer's Command Line in order to see the expected result set.
Above code generates this SQL string(v_sql) for the currently existing data
SELECT ID, MAX(CASE WHEN rn = 1 THEN age||'('||passengers||')' END) AS "Age1",
MAX(CASE WHEN rn = 2 THEN age||'('||passengers||')' END) AS "Age2",
MAX(CASE WHEN rn = 3 THEN age||'('||passengers||')' END) AS "Age3"
FROM
(
SELECT t.*,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY ID ORDER BY 0) AS rn
FROM t
)
GROUP BY ID
which yields
ID Age1 Age2 Age3
123456 58(Marie) 65(Ben)
123458 32(Aaron) 18(Caroline) 37(Stephanie)
as result set.
