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Using Uniqueidentifier(GUID) in Aggregate Operations (MS SQL Server)

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Uniqueidentifier(GUID) can’t be used in aggregate operations like count(), etc. This problem may be solved by casting uniqueidentifier as varchar. Presuming that guid_column is a uniqueidentifier column:

 select count(cast(guid_column as varchar(36)) from a_table group by guid_column

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