语法
用法
SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH
is valid only in hierarchical queries. It returns the path of a column value from root to node, with column values separated by
char
for each row returned by
CONNECT
BY
condition.
Both column
and char
can be any of the datatypes
CHAR
, VARCHAR2
, NCHAR
, or NVARCHAR2
. The string returned is of
VARCHAR2
datatype and is in the same character set as column
.
范例
The following example returns the path of employee names from employee Kochhar
to all employees of
Kochhar
(and their employees):
SELECT LPAD(' ', 2*level-1)||SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH(last_name, '/') "Path"
FROM employees
START WITH last_name = 'Kochhar'
CONNECT BY PRIOR employee_id = manager_id;
Path
---------------------------------------------------------------
/Kochhar
/Kochhar/Greenberg
/Kochhar/Greenberg/Faviet
/Kochhar/Greenberg/Chen
/Kochhar/Greenberg/Sciarra
/Kochhar/Greenberg/Urman
/Kochhar/Greenberg/Popp
/Kochhar/Whalen
/Kochhar/Mavris
/Kochhar/Baer
/Kochhar/Higgins
/Kochhar/Higgins/Gietz