Monday, June 20, 2016

Find Maximum Value from Multiple Columns

A colleague asked about how to get maximum value from multiple columns. After searching it online, I found a pretty good way to get it, and thought it would be good to share here.

For example, I have a table with MemberID and 3 date fields. I want to get the last date from the 3 date fields for each MemberID.


The expected end result look like:

Creating the sample data:

create table #member ( MemberID nvarchar(100), modifiedon datetime, deletedon datetime, addedon datetime )
insert into #member values ('M1', GETDATE(), GETDATE(), GETDATE())
insert into #member values ('M2', GETDATE()-1, GETDATE()-2, GETDATE()-3)
insert into #member values ('M3', GETDATE()-3, GETDATE()-2, GETDATE()-1)


Query to get the max for multiple columns:

SELECT 
 MemberID, 
 LastUpdateDate =
 ( SELECT MAX(LastUpdateDate)
  FROM (VALUES (modifiedon),(deletedon),(addedon)) AS UpdateDate(LastUpdateDate)
 )
FROM #member

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