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

If you know what values you are looking for, usually a status code, the following can be helpful:

select case when 0 in (PAGE1STATUS ,PAGE2STATUS ,PAGE3STATUS,
PAGE4STATUS,PAGE5STATUS ,PAGE6STATUS) then 0 else 1 end
FROM CUSTOMERS_FORMS