COMPARING WITH COLUM WITH SPECIFIC VALUES IN SQL

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COMPARING WITH COLUM WITH SPECIFIC VALUES IN SQL

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Limuh
Yak Posting Veteran

94 Posts

Posted - 2008-02-06 : 07:53:17

Im Working with stored procedure. How can i compare Columns with specific values. I want to get the greater values of those column and inserted it to other columns. i want something like these
CASE
WHEN a> b,c,d THEN a
WHEN b> a,c,d THEN b
WHEN c> a,b,d THEN c
WHEN d> a,d,c THEN d

is there any ways to implement this? i got an error..
thanks please help..

RickD
Slow But Sure Yak Herding Master

3608 Posts

Posted - 2008-02-06 : 08:34:22

select max(a), max(b), max(c), max(d) from table

madhivanan
Premature Yak Congratulator

22864 Posts

Posted - 2008-02-06 : 08:48:22

[code]
select
case
when a>b and a>c and a>d then a
when b>c and b>d then b
when c>d then c
else d
end
from your_table[/code]

Madhivanan

Failing to plan is Planning to fail

Limuh
Yak Posting Veteran

94 Posts

Posted - 2008-02-06 : 22:44:44

Thanks i do appreciate it a lot..