Question

I have a SQL query that returns two columns – “Title” and “Count”. When “Title” is NULL or empty (”), I want to combine the result into one row. How can I do this?

This is what I have so far:

SELECT  [Title] WHEN '' THEN 'blank' ELSE ISNULL([Title],'blank') AS [Title],
        COUNT([value]) AS [Count]
FROM ....
WHERE ....
GROUP BY [Title],[Count]

but because of the Group By, they are split into two different rows:

Answer 1

SELECT  CASE WHEN COALESCE([Title],'') = '' THEN 'blank' 
             ELSE [Title] 
        END AS [Title],
        COUNT([value]) AS [Count]
FROM ....
WHERE ....
GROUP BY CASE WHEN COALESCE([Title],'') = '' THEN 'blank' 
              ELSE [Title] 
         END