SELECT o.OrderId,   
--MAX(o.NegotiatedPrice, o.SuggestedPrice)  
(SELECT MAX(v) FROM (VALUES (o.NegotiatedPrice), (o.SuggestedPrice)) AS value(v)) as ChoosenPrice  
FROM Order o

哎呀，我刚刚发布了一个关于这个问题的恶搞帖…

答案是，没有像Oracle's Greatest这样的内置函数，但是您可以通过UDF为两个列实现类似的结果，注意，sql_variant的使用在这里非常重要。

create table #t (a int, b int) 

insert #t
select 1,2 union all 
select 3,4 union all
select 5,2

-- option 1 - A case statement
select case when a > b then a else b end
from #t

-- option 2 - A union statement 
select a from #t where a >= b 
union all 
select b from #t where b > a 

-- option 3 - A udf
create function dbo.GREATEST
( 
    @a as sql_variant,
    @b as sql_variant
)
returns sql_variant
begin   
    declare @max sql_variant 
    if @a is null or @b is null return null
    if @b > @a return @b  
    return @a 
end


select dbo.GREATEST(a,b)
from #t

克里斯汀

下面是我的回答:

create table #t (id int IDENTITY(1,1), a int, b int)
insert #t
select 1,2 union all
select 3,4 union all
select 5,2

select id, max(val)
from #t
    unpivot (val for col in (a, b)) as unpvt
group by id

以下是@Scott Langham用简单的NULL处理给出的答案:

SELECT
      o.OrderId,
      CASE WHEN (o.NegotiatedPrice > o.SuggestedPrice OR o.SuggestedPrice IS NULL) 
         THEN o.NegotiatedPrice 
         ELSE o.SuggestedPrice
      END As MaxPrice
FROM Order o

select OrderId, (
    select max([Price]) from (
        select NegotiatedPrice [Price]
        union all
        select SuggestedPrice
    ) p
) from [Order]

如果你想拥有与你的例子相似的语法，你需要创建一个用户定义的函数，但是你能像其他人所说的那样，用一个CASE语句很容易地做你想做的事情，内联。

UDF可以是这样的:

create function dbo.InlineMax(@val1 int, @val2 int)
returns int
as
begin
  if @val1 > @val2
    return @val1
  return isnull(@val2,@val1)
end

．.． 你会这样称呼它…

SELECT o.OrderId, dbo.InlineMax(o.NegotiatedPrice, o.SuggestedPrice) 
FROM Order o

SQL Server 2012引入IIF:

SELECT 
    o.OrderId, 
    IIF( ISNULL( o.NegotiatedPrice, 0 ) > ISNULL( o.SuggestedPrice, 0 ),
         o.NegotiatedPrice, 
         o.SuggestedPrice 
    )
FROM 
    Order o

建议在使用IIF时处理NULL，因为boolean表达式两侧的NULL将导致IIF返回false_value(而不是NULL)。