-- Simple way without "functions" or "IF" or "CASE"
 -- Query to select maximum value
 SELECT o.OrderId
  ,(SELECT MAX(v)
   FROM (VALUES (o.NegotiatedPrice), (o.SuggestedPrice)) AS value(v)) AS MaxValue
  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)。

是的，有。

T-SQL (SQL Server 2022 (16.x))现在支持最大/最小函数:

MAX/MIN作为非聚合函数 现在Azure SQL数据库和SQL托管实例都支持这个功能。它将滚动到下一个版本的SQL Server。

逻辑函数- GREATEST (Transact-SQL) 此函数返回一个或多个表达式列表中的最大值。 最伟大的表达，…n)

在这种情况下:

SELECT o.OrderId, GREATEST(o.NegotiatedPrice, o.SuggestedPrice)
FROM [Order] o;

db < > fiddle演示

其实很简单:

CREATE FUNCTION InlineMax
(
    @p1 sql_variant,
    @p2 sql_variant
)  RETURNS sql_variant
AS
BEGIN
    RETURN CASE 
        WHEN @p1 IS NULL AND @p2 IS NOT NULL THEN @p2 
        WHEN @p2 IS NULL AND @p1 IS NOT NULL THEN @p1
        WHEN @p1 > @p2 THEN @p1
        ELSE @p2 END
END;

子查询可以从Outer查询访问列，因此可以使用这种方法跨列使用MAX等聚合。(不过，当涉及到大量列时可能更有用)

;WITH [Order] AS
(
SELECT 1 AS OrderId, 100 AS NegotiatedPrice, 110 AS SuggestedPrice UNION ALL
SELECT 2 AS OrderId, 1000 AS NegotiatedPrice, 50 AS SuggestedPrice
)
SELECT
       o.OrderId, 
       (SELECT MAX(price)FROM 
           (SELECT o.NegotiatedPrice AS price 
            UNION ALL SELECT o.SuggestedPrice) d) 
        AS MaxPrice 
FROM  [Order]  o

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