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

You can use RANK() function to rank the values for Salary column.

SELECT *
FROM
(
 SELECT *, RANK()OVER(ORDER BY Salary DESC) As SalaryRank
 FROM Employee 
) AS Tab
WHERE SalaryRank = 2