sql - get the latest date of two columns

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Published on 2010-05-27T00:36:10Z Indexed on 2010/05/27 0:41 UTC
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table1
    - date1 datetime not null
    - date2 nvarchar null

select date1, date2, 
(CASE WHEN date1 > CAST(date2 as DateTime) THEN date1 ELSE date2 END) as DateTime) as LatestDate
from table1

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