Nth max salary in Oracle

Question

To find out the Nth max sal in oracle i\'m using below query

SELECT DISTINCE sal 
FROM emp a 
WHERE (
       SELECT COUNT(DISTINCE sal) 
       FROM emp b 
          


        

Answer 1

The following solution works from 12c onwards:

Select min(sal) from emp where 
Sal in ( select distinct (sal) from emp order by sal desc fetch first n rows only);

Replace n as per your requirement