SQL query to find Nth highest salary

Question

I am referring to following query to find Nth highest salary of a employee.

select sal from emp t where &n = (select count(sal) from (select distinct sal         


        

Answer 1

  SELECT Max(Salary) as Salary
    FROM employee
    where  Salary Not in 
    (SELECT TOP N Salary FROM employee ORDER BY Salary DESC)
  where N is defined by you.

So let's say you have the following salaries in the table employee: Here employeeID and Salary are the columns of employee table.

EmployeeID Salary

 101  25,000
 154  89,000
 987  42,000
 450  12,000
 954  50,000

If we want to see the fourth-highest salary

Salary

25,000

Query return fourth highest salary.