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

Just change the inner query value: E.g Select Top (2)* from Student_Info order by ClassID desc

Use for both problem:

Select Top (1)* from 
(
 Select Top (1)* from Student_Info order by ClassID desc 
) as wsdwe
order by ClassID