我不知道 Apex-solution,但我可以推荐 Oracle-solution。
这是一个示例:表 test 存储有关国家/地区的信息:
SQL> create table test (id number, countries varchar2(30));
Table created.
数据库触发器对countries 列中的值进行排序。如何?它将冒号分隔值字符串拆分为行(这就是regexp 和connect by 所做的),然后将它们合并回另一个冒号分隔值字符串(使用listagg),但这次是排序的(order by 1 ):
SQL> create or replace trigger trg_biu_cou
2 before insert or update on test
3 for each row
4 begin
5 select listagg(regexp_substr(:new.countries, '[^:]+', 1, level), ':') within group (order by 1)
6 into :new.countries
7 from dual
8 connect by level <= regexp_count(:new.countries, ':') + 1;
9 end;
10 /
Trigger created.
好的,让我们看看它是否有效:
SQL> insert into test (id, countries) values (1, 'UK:France:Portugal');
1 row created.
SQL> select * from test;
ID COUNTRIES
---------- ------------------------------
1 France:Portugal:UK
SQL> update test set countries = 'New Zealand:Croatia:Hungary' where id = 1;
1 row updated.
SQL> select * from test;
ID COUNTRIES
---------- ------------------------------
1 Croatia:Hungary:New Zealand
SQL>
可能没问题;试一试。