Find max and second max salary for a employee table MySQL

Question

Suppose that you are given the following simple database table called Employee that has 2 columns named Employee ID and Salary:

  Employee
  Employee ID    S         


        

Answer 1

The Best & Easiest solution:-

 SELECT
    max(salary)
FROM
    salary
WHERE
    salary < (
        SELECT
            max(salary)
        FROM
            salary
    );