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

You can try this sql where Row_number() function of the oracle sql is used

select column_name from (
 select column_name ,  
row_number() over (order by column_name  desc) as  row_num  
from table_Name ) tablex
where row_num =3