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

Here change n value according your requirement:

SELECT top 1 amount 
FROM ( 
    SELECT DISTINCT top n amount 
    FROM payment 
    ORDER BY amount DESC ) AS temp 
ORDER BY amount