How to get a report split on a page

Question

I have a situation with a report where I have 3 columns.
If I run this report I see a long list with 3 columns.
How can I get this so that that I have these 3 columns scaled horizontaly?
I want to get this so that you see more information on the screen.
col1 || col2 || col3 col1 || col2 || col3
data || data || data|| data || data || data
etc.
Please can somebody give me an advice?
Thanks,
Edward

Answer 1

Not claiming that it's a brilliant idea, but it does seem to get it done using only SQL:
hr@xe > with t as (
  2        -- Get the column values in desired order with row numbers and a count of
  3        -- the total rows retrieved
  4        select
  5                  e.last_name
  6                , row_number() over (order by e.last_name) rn
  7                , count(*) over () n
  8        from
  9                  employees e)
10    , u as (
11        -- Assign the data to the required number of columns (= buckets)
12        select
13                  last_name
14                , rn
15                , width_bucket(rn, 1, n, 3 /* no of columns */) col
16        from
17                  t)
18    , w as (
19        -- Find the number of rows in the longest (i.e. first) column
20        select max(count(*)) c from u group by col)
21    , x as (
22        -- "Pivot" the set into the required number of columns
23        select
24                  u.last_name l1
25                , lead(u.last_name, c) over (order by u.rn) l2
26                , lead(u.last_name, 2 * c) over (order by u.rn) l3
27        from
28                  u, w)
29        -- Trim off duplicate data after the required rows are displayed
30  select x.l1 , x.l2 , x.l3 from x, w where rownum <= w.c;
L1                        L2                        L3
Abel                      Gietz                     Olsen
Ande                      Grant                     Olson
Atkinson                  Grant                     Ozer
Austin                    Greenberg                 Partners
Baer                      Greene                    Pataballa
Baida                     Hall                      Patel
Banda                     Hartstein                 Perkins
Bates                     Higgins                   Philtanker
Bell                      Himuro                    Popp
Bernstein                 Hunold                    Rajs
Bissot                    Hutton                    Raphaely
Bloom                     Johnson                   Rogers
Bull                      Jones                     Russell
Cabrio                    Kaufling                  Sarchand
Cambrault                 Khoo                      Sciarra
Cambrault                 King                      Seo
Chen                      King                      Sewall
Chung                     Kochhar                   Smith
Colmenares                Kumar                     Smith
Davies                    Ladwig                    Stiles
De Haan                   Landry                    Sullivan
Dellinger                 Lee                       Sully
Dilly                     Livingston                Taylor
Doran                     Lorentz                   Taylor
Ernst                     Mallin                    Tobias
Errazuriz                 Markle                    Tucker
Everett                   Marlow                    Tuvault
Faviet                    Marvins                   Urman
Fay                       Matos                     Vargas
Feeney                    Mavris                    Vishney
Fleaur                    McCain                    Vollman
Fox                       McEwen                    Walsh
Fripp                     Mikkilineni               Weiss
Gates                     Mourgos                   Whalen
Gee                       Nayer                     Zlotkey
Geoni                     OConnell
36 rows selected.Happy to see someone simplify it...