>I think I should know this but..........
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>I have a DB2 table with fields Num1, Num2, Num3 (among others)
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>I need to get the largest of the three numeric fields.
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>Clearly SELECT MAX(Num1, Num2, Num3) FROM mytable won't work, but it seems as if there ought to be some simple equivalent. I just haven't been able to find it.
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>Can somebody point me in the right direction?
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>Thanks.........Rich

Rich,

Try

select max(MAX(Num1, Num2, Num3)) from table ...