What's the best way to select the minimum value from several columns?

Question

Given the following table in SQL Server 2005:

ID   Col1   Col2   Col3
--   ----   ----   ----
1       3     34     76  
2      32    976     24
3       7             


        

Answer 1

Both this question And this question try to answer this.

The recap is that Oracle has a built in function for this, with Sql Server you are stuck either defining a user-defined-function or using case statements.