Select 1 column in Presentation Layer, but display 2

Question

Is it possible to have a column in the presentation layer as a combination of two columns? Something like a dimensional key - but so that it doesn't come like 2004-1 (year+qtr), but like 2004 / 1 (2 columns) - thanks

Answer 1

Like this...
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
  1  select max(decode(rn, 1, empno)) as emp1
  2        ,max(decode(rn, 2, empno)) as emp2
  3        ,max(decode(rn, 3, empno)) as emp3
  4        ,max(decode(rn, 4, empno)) as emp4
  5        ,max(decode(rn, 5, empno)) as emp5
  6        ,max(decode(rn, 6, empno)) as emp6
  7        ,max(decode(rn, 7, empno)) as emp7
  8        ,max(decode(rn, 8, empno)) as emp8
  9        ,max(decode(rn, 9, empno)) as emp9
10        ,max(decode(rn, 10, empno)) as emp10
11        ,max(decode(rn, 11, empno)) as emp11
12        ,max(decode(rn, 12, empno)) as emp12
13        ,max(decode(rn, 13, empno)) as emp13
14        ,max(decode(rn, 14, empno)) as emp14
15        ,max(decode(rn, 15, empno)) as emp15
16        ,max(decode(rn, 16, empno)) as emp16
17        ,max(decode(rn, 17, empno)) as emp17
18        ,max(decode(rn, 18, empno)) as emp18
19        ,max(decode(rn, 19, empno)) as emp19
20        ,max(decode(rn, 20, empno)) as emp20
21  from (
22        select empno, row_number() over (order by empno) as rn from emp
23*      )
SQL> /
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