Alternative for MAX operator on bit fields

Question

I have table with permissions that has few bit fields. I want to group rows in this table and get result with top permissions. So with this table:

UserId, Permisssion1,Permission2, Permisssion3  

With this to rows
13,1,0,0
13,0,1,0

I want to get:
13,1,1,0

Problem is that operator MAX doesn't works on bit fields. How to do that in efficient way? (without using CASE)

Answer 1

As simple as...

MAX(CAST(Permisssion1 AS tinyint)) 

You don't have many other options...