DECODE HELP

From: Viktor <stant_98_at_YAHOO.COM>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 12:48:13 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00465395.20020520124813@fatcity.com>

Hello all,

This has probably been discussed here before and I'm sorry if I'm repeating this. But I'd very much appreciate if someone could show me how to use DECODE to select a MAX date where records are like this:

PRIM. KEY FIRST_DATE SEC_DATE THIRD_DATE JO001599O 12/14/2000 03/23/2001 05/21/2001 JO001620L 12/27/2000 05/16/2001

The first_date, sec_date and third_date may or may not exist; either one of the dates will be there. I need to come up with another column LATEST_DATE which will show the latest date of the 3.

Thanks very much in advance!

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