我想写一个这样的查询:

SELECT o.OrderId, MAX(o.NegotiatedPrice, o.SuggestedPrice)
FROM Order o

但这不是MAX函数的工作原理,对吧?它是一个聚合函数,因此它需要一个参数,然后返回所有行的MAX。

有人知道我的方法吗?


当前回答

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)

其他回答

我可能不会这样做,因为它比前面提到的CASE结构效率更低——除非您为两个查询都有覆盖索引。不管怎样,对于类似的问题,这都是一个有用的技巧:

SELECT OrderId, MAX(Price) as Price FROM (
   SELECT o.OrderId, o.NegotiatedPrice as Price FROM Order o
   UNION ALL
   SELECT o.OrderId, o.SuggestedPrice as Price FROM Order o
) as A
GROUP BY OrderId
SELECT o.OrderID
CASE WHEN o.NegotiatedPrice > o.SuggestedPrice THEN
 o.NegotiatedPrice
ELSE
 o.SuggestedPrice
END AS Price

这里有一个案例示例,应该处理null,并将与旧版本的MSSQL一起工作。这是基于一个流行例子中的内联函数:

case
  when a >= b then a
  else isnull(b,a)
end

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)。

你可以这样做:

select case when o.NegotiatedPrice > o.SuggestedPrice 
then o.NegotiatedPrice
else o.SuggestedPrice
end