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

select * from emp where sal =(select max(sal) from emp where eno in(select eno from emp where sal <(select max(sal)from emp )));

try the above code ....

if you want the third max record then add another nested query "select max(sal)from emp" inside the bracket of the last query and give less than operator in front of it.