Second Highest Salary

Question

Write a SQL query to get the second highest salary from the Employee table.

    | Id | Salary |
    | 1  | 100    |
    | 2  | 200    |
    | 3  | 300    |
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Answer 1

In case of ties you want the second highest distinct value. E.g. for values 100, 200, 300, 300, you want 200.

So get the highest value (MAX(salary) => 300) and then get the highest value less than that:

select max(salary) from mytable where salary < (select max(salary) from mytable);