>I want to select all the rows where the minimum
>of column1 and column2 are bigger than the maximum of col3 and col4
... WHERE Least(col1,col2) > Greatest(col3, col4) ...
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Peng Yu wrote:
> I don't see there is a function to compute min or max of two numbers
> in a row. Essentially I want to select all the rows where the minimum
> of column1 and column2 are bigger than the maximum of col3 and col4
> (The following code won't work as I expected, if I am correct).
>
> select * from a_table where min(col1, col2) >= max(col3,col4)
>
> I could expand the above expression to just using primitive
> comparisons. But it would not be very readable. I'm wondering if there
> is a better way to do so in sql.
>
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