Dynamic pivot in oracle sql

Question

... pivot (sum(A) for B in (X))

Now B is of datatype varchar2 and X is a string of varchar2 values separated by commas.
Values for X are select distinct values

Answer 1

I used the above method (Anton PL/SQL custom function pivot()) and it done the job! As I am not a professional Oracle developer, these are simple steps I've done:

1) Download the zip package to find pivotFun.sql in there. 2) Run once the pivotFun.sql to create a new function 3) Use the function in normal SQL.

Just be careful with dynamic columns names. In my environment I found that column name is limited with 30 characters and cannot contain a single quote in it. So, my query is now something like this:

SELECT 
  *
FROM   
  table( 
        pivot('
                SELECT DISTINCT
                    P.proj_id,
                    REPLACE(substr(T.UDF_TYPE_LABEL, 1, 30), '''''''','','') as Attribute,
                    CASE
                      WHEN V.udf_text is null     and V.udf_date is null and      V.udf_number is NOT null  THEN to_char(V.udf_number)
                      WHEN V.udf_text is null     and V.udf_date is NOT null and  V.udf_number is null      THEN to_char(V.udf_date)
                      WHEN V.udf_text is NOT null and V.udf_date is null and      V.udf_number is null      THEN V.udf_text
                      ELSE NULL END
                    AS VALUE
                FROM
                    project   P
                LEFT JOIN UDFVALUE V ON P.proj_id     = V.proj_id 
                LEFT JOIN UDFTYPE  T ON V.UDF_TYPE_ID = T.UDF_TYPE_ID
                WHERE 
                    P.delete_session_id  IS NULL AND
                    T.TABLE_NAME = ''PROJECT''
    ')
)

Works well with up to 1m records.