Recent Date, Last date and Date before that

Question

What is the way to reterieve the latest date, Last date before that .....I need to use this for version maintenance table.
I need to do this withouth doing max...below  is my query
declare
@version varchar(10)
=
'@VERSION'
--declare @version varchar(10)= 'Daily Planet'
update
dbo.Version_Control
set [VERSION TYPE]='Previous'
where
datediff(d,[SUBMISSION
DATE],(getdate()))
= 1
update
dbo.Version_Control
set [VERSION TYPE]='Archive'
where
datediff(d,[SUBMISSION
DATE],getdate())>
1
if
exists(select
[VERSION TYPE] from
version
where [SUBMISSION DATE]=convert(char(10),getdate(),101)
and dbo.Version_Control=@version
and [type]='Current')
and
not
exists(select
[VERSION TYPE] from
version
where [SUBMISSION DATE]=convert(char(10),(getdate()),101)
and dbo.Version_Control=@version
and [VERSION TYPE]='Final')
update dbo.Version_Control
set [VERSION TYPE]='Current'
where
datediff(d,[SUBMISSION
DATE],getdate())=0
else
update dbo.Version_Control
set [VERSION TYPE]='Archive'
where
datediff(d,[SUBMISSION
DATE],(getdate()))=
0
SPPandey

Answer 1

I have :
Version                                   Version Type                   Submission
Date                 IMPORT
FA14 f1 EQ                               Final                             
3-25-2014                               DP
Recon 4-2014                          Final                              
2-11-2014                               Recon
FA14 F2 EQ                              Previous                       
2-25-2014                               DP
FA14F3 EQ                              Archive                           1-17-2014                              
DP
FA14 F1 EQ Current                Current                          3-25-2014                              
DP
FA14 F2 EQ Current                Archive                         
3-9-2014                                  DP
This is my desired outcome which state that depending on what version I am importing I need to sort the file/data as Final,Previous and Archive. The way I can do it is my looking at the submission date. The latest would be my Final, then previous and archive.
If there is a current then that would be current for the latest date. If there is a current from previous date than everything would be archive.
SPPandey