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

For me that is the best solution.

declare @res int
set @res=0    
SELECT  @res=@res|t.n
    FROM    ( SELECT    1 AS n
              UNION ALL
              SELECT    2
              UNION ALL
              SELECT    3
              UNION ALL
              SELECT    4
              UNION ALL
              SELECT    5
              UNION ALL
              SELECT    6
            ) AS t