Sarabpreet Singh Anand

How to Compare the Data in Two Tables Without Any 3rd-Party Tool?

SQL Server ships with the tablediff utility which can be used to compare the data in two tables. Read this article to learn it step-by-step:

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2011-08-05

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I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder]
(
[OrderID] [int] NULL,
[CustomerID] [int] NULL,
[total] [money] NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO

What is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)

SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
       COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;