How to find third or nᵗʰ maximum salary from salary table?

Question

How to find third or n^th maximum salary from salary table(EmpID, EmpName, EmpSalary) in optimized way?

Answer 1

Refer following query for getting nth highest salary. By this way you get nth highest salary in MYSQL. If you want get nth lowest salary only you need to replace DESC by ASC in the query.