Displaying multiple columns of a single column query

Question

Would anyone happen to know how to display a result set in multiple horizontal columns as opposed to a single vertical column in ApEx?
Example:
select server_name from owner.servers;
A normal sql report would return:
server1
server2
server3
server4
server5
server6
What I'm looking for is a return that will display:
server1 server2 server3
server4 server5 server6

Answer 1

I'm sure there's a much better way, but one thing that popped into my head was to make your report be a Dynamic PL/SQL Region.
If you loop thru the records in a cursor, you can build a string and once you have "three" records, use the htp.p to print it out.
So something like this maybe:
v_count NUMBER(1);
v_data SERVERS.SERVER_NAME%TYPE;
v_string VARCHAR2(100);
CURSOR getdata IS
SELECT server_name
FROM servers
ORDER BY server_name;
BEGIN
v_count := 0;
OPEN getdata;
LOOP
FETCH getdata INTO v_data;
EXIT WHEN getdata%NOTFOUND;
v_count := v_count + 1;
IF v_count = 1 THEN
v_string := rpad(v_data,25,' ');
ELSIF v_count = 4 THEN
htp.p(v_string);
v_count := 1;
v_string := rpad(v_data,25,' ');
ELSE
v_string := v_string||rpad(v_data,25,' ');
END IF;
END LOOP;
CLOSE getdata;
END;
Variable lengths would need to be adjusted to fit your data, but you get the idea (hopefully).
Again, perhaps it's not the most efficient, but it would work.
Chad