Yeah, I guess I didn't think of that because the first thing I thought of was using IIF in the statement. That worked, but it's ugly. Thanks for the reply.

>Russell,
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>You can wrap it with a new name.
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>create cursor x1 ( i1 i, i2 i, i3 i, i4 i )
>insert into x1 values ( 1,2,3,4 )
>insert into x1 values ( 2,3,4,5 )
>select vfpmax( i1, i2, i3, i4 ) from x1
>select max( vfpmax( i1, i2, i3, i4 ) ) from x1
>
>function vfpmax( p1, p2, p3, p4 )
>return max( p1, p2, p3, p4 )
>

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>>Is there a way to use the MAX function in a SQL statement (as opposed to the documented MAX "field function" that calculates the largest value in a column). To be more specific, for any particular record, I need to multiply the value in a field by the value in another field. However, the value in the first field will sometimes be negative 1 and in that case I don't want to multiply negative one by the value in the other field, I want to multiply 0 by the value in the other field.