SQL> select emp_name

  2  from employee;

EMP_NAME

————————————————————-

Rajesh Chakrabarti

He was told to show it like:

Rajesh

Chakrabarti

Somehow he was failed to solve this within the given time. Next day when he told me, we both tried it and solved it in different ways writing some clumsy code (containing more then 15 lines of PL/SQL code).

Then this technique came in mind…

SQL> select replace(emp_name,’ ‘,chr(10)) AS emp_name

  2  from employee;

EMP_NAME

————————————————————-

Rajesh

Charabarti

Simple solution, spaces are replaced by a Return [chr(10)].

The lesson we learned is: SQL’s power is sometimes ignored, we should think twice before moving toward PL/SQL.