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SQL query to find second highest salary?

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Consider below simple table:

Name Salary

---------------

abc 100000

bcd 1000000

efg 40000

ghi 500000

How to find the employee whose salar y is second highest. For example, in above table,

“ghi” has the second highest salar y as 500000.

Below is simple quer y to find the employee whose salar y is highest.

SELECT name, MAX(salary) as salary FROM employee

We can nest the above quer y to find the second largest salar y.

SELECT name, MAX(salary) AS salary

FROM employee

WHERE salary < (SELECT MAX(salary)

FROM employee);

There are other ways also as suggested by RajnishKrJha.

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SELECT name, MAX(salary) AS salary

FROM employee

WHERE salary IN

(SELECT salary FROM employee MINUS SELECT MAX(salary)

FROM employee);

SELECT name, MAX(salary) AS salary

FROM employee

WHERE salary (SELECT MAX(salary)

FROM employee);

One way as suggested by Arka Poddar.

IN SQL Ser ver using Common Table Expression or CTE, we can find the second highest

salar y:

WITH T AS

SELECT *

DENSE_RANK() OVER (ORDER BY Salary Desc) AS Rnk

FROM Employees

SELECT Name

FROM T

WHERE Rnk=2;

How to find the third largest salar y?

Simple, we can do one more nesting.

SELECT name, MAX(salary) AS salary

FROM employee

WHERE salary < (SELECT MAX(salary)

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FROM employee

WHERE salary < (SELECT MAX(salary)

FROM employee)

);

Note that instead of nesting for second, third, etc largest salar y, we can find nth salar y

using general quer y like in MySQL:

SELECT salary

FROM employee

ORDER BY salary desc limit n-1,1

SELECT name, salary

FROM employee A

WHERE n-1 = (SELECT count(1)

FROM employee B

WHERE B.salary>A.salary)

If multiple employee have same salar y.

Suppose you have to find 4th highest salar y

SELECT * FROM employee

WHERE salary= (SELECT DISTINCT(salary)

FROM employee ORDER BY salary LIMIT 3,1);

Generic quer y will be

SELECT * FROM employee

WHERE salary= (SELECT DISTINCT(salary)

FROM employee ORDER BY salary LIMIT n-1,1);

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