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;

如果你使用的是SQL Server 2008(或更高版本)，那么这是更好的解决方案:

SELECT o.OrderId,
       (SELECT MAX(Price)
        FROM (VALUES (o.NegotiatedPrice),(o.SuggestedPrice)) AS AllPrices(Price))
FROM Order o

所有的信用和投票都应该去Sven对一个相关问题的答案，“多列的SQL MAX ?” 我说这是“最佳答案”，因为:

It doesn't require complicating your code with UNION's, PIVOT's, UNPIVOT's, UDF's, and crazy-long CASE statments. It isn't plagued with the problem of handling nulls, it handles them just fine. It's easy to swap out the "MAX" with "MIN", "AVG", or "SUM". You can use any aggregate function to find the aggregate over many different columns. You're not limited to the names I used (i.e. "AllPrices" and "Price"). You can pick your own names to make it easier to read and understand for the next guy. You can find multiple aggregates using SQL Server 2008's derived_tables like so: SELECT MAX(a), MAX(b) FROM (VALUES (1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6), (7, 8), (9, 10) ) AS MyTable(a, b)

以下是一个带有NULL处理的IIF版本(基于Xin的回答):

IIF(a IS NULL OR b IS NULL, ISNULL(a,b), IIF(a > b, a, b))

逻辑如下，如果其中一个值为NULL，则返回非NULL的值(如果两个值都为NULL，则返回NULL)。否则返回较大的值。

MIN也是一样。

IIF(a IS NULL OR b IS NULL, ISNULL(a,b), IIF(a < b, a, b))

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;

在SQL Server 2012或更高版本中，您可以使用IIF和ISNULL(或COALESCE)的组合来获得最多2个值。 即使其中一个是NULL。

IIF(col1 >= col2, col1, ISNULL(col2, col1)) 

或者当两者都为NULL时，希望它返回0

IIF(col1 >= col2, col1, COALESCE(col2, col1, 0)) 

示例代码片段:

-- use table variable for testing purposes
declare @Order table 
(
  OrderId int primary key identity(1,1),
  NegotiatedPrice decimal(10,2),
  SuggestedPrice decimal(10,2)
);

-- Sample data
insert into @Order (NegotiatedPrice, SuggestedPrice) values
(0, 1),
(2, 1),
(3, null),
(null, 4);

-- Query
SELECT 
     o.OrderId, o.NegotiatedPrice, o.SuggestedPrice, 
     IIF(o.NegotiatedPrice >= o.SuggestedPrice, o.NegotiatedPrice, ISNULL(o.SuggestedPrice, o.NegotiatedPrice)) AS MaxPrice
FROM @Order o

结果:

OrderId NegotiatedPrice SuggestedPrice  MaxPrice
1       0,00            1,00            1,00
2       2,00            1,00            2,00
3       3,00            NULL            3,00
4       NULL            4,00            4,00

但如果需要多列中的最大值呢? 然后我建议在值的聚合上使用CROSS APPLY。

例子:

SELECT t.*
, ca.[Maximum]
, ca.[Minimum], ca.[Total], ca.[Average]
FROM SomeTable t
CROSS APPLY (
   SELECT 
    MAX(v.col) AS [Maximum], 
    MIN(v.col) AS [Minimum], 
    SUM(v.col) AS [Total], 
    AVG(v.col) AS [Average]
   FROM (VALUES (t.Col1), (t.Col2), (t.Col3), (t.Col4)) v(col)
) ca

这有一个额外的好处，它可以同时计算其他的东西。

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;

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