Handling Null in Greatest function in Oracle

Question

I want to compare two dates from two columns and get the greatest and then compare against a date value.The two column can hold NULL values too.For example I want the below OUTP

Answer 1

Another version using a case expression to handle the null values:

select cola, colb, 
  case when cola is null and colb is null then null
    when cola is null then colb
    when colb is null then cola
    else greatest(cola, colb)
  end as output
from ;

COLA       COLB       OUTPUT   
---------- ---------- ----------

09/21/2013 01/02/2012 09/21/2013 
           01/03/2013 01/03/2013 
01/03/2013            01/03/2013 

                                                        

              
                
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