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

Try below Query, was working for me to find Nth highest number salary. Just replace your number with nth_No

Select DISTINCT TOP 1 salary
from 
(Select DISTINCT TOP *nth_No* salary
from Employee
ORDER BY Salary DESC)
Result
ORDER BY Salary