group by

The Grouping Sets feature was added to the T-SQL GROUP BY clause with the release of SQL Server 2008. Despite its usefulness, I've not come across many (or any) of them in the wild at any of the clients I've worked at in the past few years. Here is a primer on how to use them, using the AdventureWorks OLTP database. SQL Server 2005 Style In SQL Server 2005, we could use the WITH ROLLUP syntax to add an aggregated total row: