Return results of a sql query as JSON in oracle 12c

Question

Background

I need to fetch a few thousands rows from Oracle and convert them to JSON for use in SlickGrid. Currently I am fetching the rows in PHP,

Answer 1

Starting Oracle 19c, the syntax to construct a JSON representation for a row of a table is simplified

For Eg: To convert all the rows of the hr.employees to separate jsons, use

SELECT JSON_OBJECT(*) FROM hr.employees ;

{
"EMPLOYEE_ID" : 100,
"FIRST_NAME" : "Steven",
"LAST_NAME" : "King",
"EMAIL" : "SKING",
"PHONE_NUMBER" : "515.123.4567",
"HIRE_DATE" : "2003-06-17T00:00:00",
"JOB_ID" : "AD_PRES",
"SALARY" : 24000,
"COMMISSION_PCT" : null,
"MANAGER_ID" : null,
"DEPARTMENT_ID" : 90
}                       --row 1
{
"EMPLOYEE_ID" : 101,
"FIRST_NAME" : "Neena",
"LAST_NAME" : "Kochhar",
"EMAIL" : "NKOCHHAR",
"PHONE_NUMBER" : "515.123.4568",
"HIRE_DATE" : "2005-09-21T00:00:00",
"JOB_ID" : "AD_VP",
"SALARY" : 17000,
"COMMISSION_PCT" : null,
"MANAGER_ID" : 100,
"DEPARTMENT_ID" : 90
}                       --row 2
 ...

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