Count the Null columns in a row in SQL

Question

I was wondering about the possibility to count the null columns of row in SQL, I have a table Customer that has nullable values, simply I want a query that return an int of

Answer 1

The below script gives you the NULL value count within a row i.e. how many columns do not have values.

{SELECT
    *,
    (SELECT COUNT(*)
    FROM (VALUES (Tab.Col1)
                ,(Tab.Col2)
                ,(Tab.Col3)
                ,(Tab.Col4)) InnerTab(Col) 
        WHERE Col IS NULL) NullColumnCount
FROM (VALUES(1,2,3,4)
            ,(NULL,2,NULL,4)
            ,(1,NULL,NULL,NULL)) Tab(Col1,Col2,Col3,Col4) } 

Just to demonstrate I am using an inline table in my example.

Try to cast or convert all column values to a common type it will help you to compare the column of different type.