LISTAGG and PIVOT functions in Oracle 11g R2

Analytic functions are first introduced in Oracle 8i. They have got few functions in new release. The first function which I will discuss here will be LISTAGG. It creates a delimited list within a group. Some times you need to toil hard for this. Most of the times, grouping by and converting columns to rows. [...]

Automatic Detection of Data Sources of Result-Cached Function

Oracle 11g release 1 gave the option of caching function results. It is done using the optional reference of mentioning RESULT_CACHE keyword. The values of these function calls are stored in system global area (SGA). It will have one result for every unique combination of parameter of passed. These are available for every session. Thus [...]