How to get second-highest salary employees in a table

Question

It\'s a question I got this afternoon:

There a table contains ID, Name, and Salary of Employees, get names of the second-highest salary employees, in SQL Server

Answer 1

This might help you

SELECT 
      MIN(SALARY) 
FROM 
      EMP 
WHERE 
      SALARY in (SELECT 
                      DISTINCT TOP 2 SALARY 
                 FROM 
                      EMP 
                 ORDER BY 
                      SALARY DESC
                )

We can find any nth highest salary by putting n (where n > 0) in place of 2

Example for 5^th highest salary we put n = 5