Lowest value from 2 date fields combined

Morning!
Need a way to combine two separate date fields to determine the lowest combined value. The idea being finding an empno's overall seniority by looking at seniority date and birthdate, birthdate settles the tie in the event two empno's have the same seniority date.
Can't find a way to do this using two date fields, only a single date field.
I also need a way to continue finding the next empno in seniority after that, and so on. Need to increment some value or get the nextval somehow to find the next highest in seniority until the entire table has been reviewed.
Thanks folks.

Hey Thanks!!
Table= Requests
Fields: Empno, LastNme, FirstNme, Seniority_DT, Birth_DT,ReqDate,ReqTime,ChoiceNum
Field values: vchar, vchar, vchar, date,date,date,date-time,vchar
Examples in above order: 36525,smith,bob,08-jun-80,23-sep-60,15-mar-10,14:00,1
The idea is that we assign (1) single day per month per employee of overtime based on seniority, and in case of a tie the birthdate settles seniority. Employees make more than one request per month so their empno appears in the table multiple times. Also a single empno can ask for one of two start times per requested day. At most, a single employee can make requests for any one of (12) days per month, on days Sun-Thu they can ask for one of (2) start times and on Fri-Sat they can ask for one of 3 start times. The "choice" field lets them indicate start time in order of preference.
On each day on each start time, (2) different people work together, so for days 1-5 there are (2) shifts of (2) people each, total of (4) people assigned per day 1-5 and (6) people assigned on days 6-7.
The needed output is that for Sunday-Thursday (2) people start at 14:00 and another (2) start at 18:00.
On Friday-Saturday (2) people start at 14:00, (2) people start at 18:00 and (2) people start at 20:00.
The idea for the report would be:
Saturday, 13 March 2010
1400 Bob Smith, Seniority Date
1400 Ted Jones, Seniority Date
1800 Tom Williams, Seniority Date
1800 Karen Hu, Seniority Date
2000 Mike Smith, Seniority Date
2000 Jim Thomas, Seniority Date
Sunday, 14 March 2010
1400 Ed Davis, Seniority Date
1400 Ron Thomas, Seniority Date
1800 Tiger Woods, Seniority Date
1800 Joe Davis, Seniority Date
Each person may only work one day per month. In the event that there is a hole where no one put a request in, we need to go back over the remaining requests to fill them in. The original idea was to do this by:
All choice #1 first, then start over looking at choice #2 and so on until all the days in the upcoming month are full.
That's about the best I can explain it. The only way I can see is to do it by seniority and choice# then go around again if there's a hole. I just can't figure out how to look at both the seniority date and birthdate to ensure seniority nor can I figure the logic necessary to find the person, check if the spot is available and assign him or if not go to his next preference for that day and check if it's available and then continue to the next guy.
It may have been simpler to explain the need in detail and ask that the structure and code be done from scratch but that's asking way too much so I thought I'd ask how to solve this problem and keep working on it from there.
Thanks in advance again!
ps... Haven't started the coding yet.... just need the code to accomplish finding seniority based on two date fields combined, then I'll start coding the entire thing.
Edited by: user9320509 on Mar 10, 2010 5:33 AM

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