Aggregate bitwise-OR in a subquery

Question

Given the following table:

CREATE TABLE BitValues ( n int )

Is it possible to compute the bitwise-OR of n for all rows with

Answer 1

I tried using COALESCE function and it works, example:

DECLARE @nOrTotal INT

SELECT @nOrTotal = COALESCE(@nOrTotal, 0) | nValor 
    FROM (SELECT 1 nValor
              UNION 
          SELECT 2
              UNION 
          SELECT 2) t

SELECT @nOrTotal

>> Result: 3