Totals that include empty groups in SQL

SQL interview exercise on Joins, difficulty 2 of 3. Solve it in the editor beside a worked example; the tests run the moment you do.

Return every department with its headcount and total salary. A department with no employees shows 0 for both, not NULL. Columns: department, headcount, total_salary. Sorted by department.

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