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

This will work To find the nth maximum number

SELECT 
    TOP 1 * from (SELECT TOP  nth_largest_no * FROM Products Order by price desc) ORDER BY price asc;

For Fifth Largest number

SELECT 
  TOP 1 *  from (SELECT TOP  5 * FROM Products Order by price desc) ORDER BY price asc;