How to get second largest or third largest entry from a table

Question

Can anyone please tell me how to find out the N th largest entry from a table in Oracle?

Like for largest we can use MAX(column_name) i

Answer 1

I think the below query will work to find the second highest record with NOT IN.

SELECT MAX( userId )
FROM table 
WHERE userId NOT IN ( 
                      SELECT MAX( userId )
                      FROM table
                    ); 

simple and useful...