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

without nested query

select max(e.salary) as max_salary, max(e1.salary) as 2nd_max_salary 
from employee as e
left join employee as e1 on e.salary != e1.salary
group by e.salary desc limit 1;