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

$q="select * from info order by salary desc limit 1,0"; // display highest 2 salary

or

$q="select * from info order by salary desc limit 1,0"; // display 2nd highest salary