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

Not really a nice query but :

SELECT * from (
    SELECT max(Salary) from Employee
    ) as a
LEFT OUTER JOIN 
    (SELECT MAX(Salary) FROM Employee
        WHERE Salary NOT IN (SELECT MAX(Salary) FROM Employee )) as b
ON 1=1