SELECTing top N rows without ROWNUM?

Question

I hope you can help me with my homework :)

We need to build a query that outputs the top N best paid employees.

My version works perfectly fine.
For exam

Answer 1

You could solve this in Oracle 12c

select NAME, SALARY
from  STAFF
order by SALARY DESC
FETCH FIRST 3 ROWS ONLY

(FETCH FIRST syntax is new with Oracle 12c)