How to ROWCOUNT_BIG() value with union all - sql

Question

I have the following query in SQL Server. How do I get the number of rows of previous select query as following format?
Sample Query
select ID, Name FROM Branch
UNION ALL
SELECT ROWCOUNT_BIG(), ''
Sample Output

Answer 1

If you use a CTE you can count the rows and union all together:
with cte as (
select ID, [Name]
from dbo.Branch
)
select ID, [Name]
from cte
union all
select count(*) + 1, ''
from cte;

Answer 2

I think you want to see total count of the select statement. you can do this way.
CREATE TABLE #test (id int)
insert into #test(id)
SELECT 1
SELECT id from #test
union all
SELECT rowcount_big()
Note: Here, the ID will be implicitly converted to BIGINT datatype, based on the datatype precedence. Read more

Answer 3

Presumably, you are running this in some sort of application. So why not use ##ROWCOUNT?
select id, name
from . . .;
select ##rowcount_big; -- big if you want a bigint
I don't see value to including the value in the same query. However, if the underlying query is an aggregation query, there might be a way to do this using GROUPING SETS.

Answer 4

Here are two ways. It's better to use a CTE to define the row set so further table inserts don't interfere with the count. Since you're using ROWCOUNT_BIG() these queries use COUNT_BIG() (which also returns bigint) to count the inserted rows. In order to make sure the total always appears as the last row an 'order_num' column was added to the SELECT list and ORDER BY clause.
drop table if exists #tTest;
go
create table #tTest(
ID int not null,
[Name] varchar(10) not null);
insert into #tTest values
(115, 'Joe'),
(116, 'Jon'),
(117, 'Ron');
/* better to use a CTE to define the row set */
with t_cte as (
select *
from #tTest)
select 1 as order_num, ID, [Name]
from t_cte
union all
select 2 as order_num, count_big(*), ''
from t_cte
order by order_num, ID;
/* 2 separate queries could give inconsistent result if table is inserted into */
select 1 as order_num, ID, [Name]
from #tTest
union all
select 2 as order_num, count_big(*), ''
from #tTest
order by order_num, ID;
Both return
order_num ID Name
1 115 Joe
1 116 Jon
1 117 Ron
2 3