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 is another solution which uses sub query but instead of IN clause it uses < operator

SELECT MAX(Salary) From Employees WHERE Salary < ( SELECT Max(Salary) FROM Employees);