SQL - Ugly combination of GROUP BY and COALESCE

Question

I have a table with data similar to the following:

[ID], [State], [foo], [DateCreated], [DateUpdated]

The longer I work on this, the uglier my SQL is getti

Answer 1

A simple Group by with nested queries should suffice:

Select State, coalesce(max_created,max_updated) from (
  Select State, min(foo) as min_foo, max(foo) as max_foo, 
    max(DateCreated) as max_created,
    max(DateUpdated) as max_updated
  From Data
  Group by State)
 Where min_foo = max_foo