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Posted - 2006-02-27 : 12:03:09

Jeff writes "One of our Accounting tables contains multiple columns for dates of submittals i.e. first second, third. They want a query that will show all the projects sorted by projects with the next upcoming date from any one of the three submittal columns. Is this even possible?"

RickD
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Posted - 2006-02-27 : 12:27:48

Look up CASE in Books Online..

Kristen
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Posted - 2006-02-27 : 13:19:20

Hi Jeff, Welcome to SQL Team!

Something like this perhaps?


SELECT CASE WHEN     SubmittalColumn1 > GetDate()
                 AND (SubmittalColumn1 < SubmittalColumn2 OR SubmittalColumn2 IS NULL)
                 AND (SubmittalColumn1 < SubmittalColumn3 OR SubmittalColumn3 IS NULL)
              THEN SubmittalColumn1
            WHEN     SubmittalColumn2 > GetDate()
                 AND (SubmittalColumn2 < SubmittalColumn3 OR SubmittalColumn3 IS NULL)
              THEN SubmittalColumn2
            ELSE SubmittalColumn3
FROM MyAccountingTable
ORDER BY MyProjectCodeColumn

Kristen

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