get a count of each value from every column in a table SQL Server

Question

So I looked this up and this question is very similar but it\'s missing a key piece: SQL Server count number of distinct values in each column of a table

So in that

Answer 1

You could use:

DECLARE @Table SYSNAME = 'TableName'; 
DECLARE @SQL NVARCHAR(MAX) = ''
SELECT @SQL = STUFF((SELECT ' UNION SELECT ''' + name 
                            + ''' AS [Column], ' 
                            + 'CAST(' + QUOTENAME(Name)
                            + ' AS NVARCHAR(MAX)) AS [ColumnValue], COUNT(*) AS [Count] FROM ' 
                            + QUOTENAME(@Table) + ' GROUP BY ' + QUOTENAME(Name)
                    FROM   sys.columns 
                    WHERE  object_id = Object_id(@Table)
                    -- concatenate result strings with FOR XML PATH
                    FOR XML PATH ('')), 1, 7, '');

EXECUTE sp_executesql @SQL;

Which will produce SQL Like the following for a table with two columns (Column1 and Column2)

SELECT 'Column1' AS [Column], 
        CAST([Column1] AS NVARCHAR(MAX)) AS [ColumnValue], 
        COUNT(*) AS [Count] 
FROM    [TableName] 
GROUP BY [Column1] 
UNION 
SELECT  'Column2' AS [Column], 
        CAST([Column2] AS NVARCHAR(MAX)) AS [ColumnValue], 
        COUNT(*) AS [Count] 
FROM    [TableName] 
GROUP BY [Column2]

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EDIT

If you want a new result set for each column then use:

DECLARE @Table SYSNAME = 'TableName'; 
DECLARE @SQL NVARCHAR(MAX) = '';
SELECT @SQL = (SELECT ' SELECT ' + QUOTENAME(Name) 
                        + ', COUNT(*) AS [Count] FROM ' 
                        + QUOTENAME(@Table) + ' GROUP BY ' + QUOTENAME(Name) + ';'
                FROM   sys.columns 
                WHERE  object_id = Object_id(@Table)
                -- concatenate result strings with FOR XML PATH
                FOR XML PATH (''));

EXECUTE sp_executesql @SQL;

Which would produce SQL Like:

SELECT  [Column1], 
        COUNT(*) AS [Count] 
FROM    [callsupplier] 
GROUP BY [Column1];

SELECT  [Column2], 
        COUNT(*) AS [Count] 
FROM    [callsupplier] 
GROUP BY [Column2];