How to find the employee with the second highest salary?

Question

Is there any predefined function or method available to get the second highest salary from an employee table?

Answer 1

If you want to find the n highest salaries from the table, you can use this:

select min(sal)from (select distinct sal from emp order by sal desc) where rownum<=n;

where n is 1,2,3, ..., n

It is a very easy process to find out the max salary from the table.