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

All of the following queries work for MySQL:

SELECT MAX(salary) FROM Employee WHERE Salary NOT IN (SELECT Max(Salary) FROM Employee);

SELECT MAX(Salary) From Employee WHERE Salary < (SELECT Max(Salary) FROM Employee);

SELECT Salary FROM Employee ORDER BY Salary DESC LIMIT 1 OFFSET 1;

SELECT Salary FROM (SELECT Salary FROM Employee ORDER BY Salary DESC LIMIT 2) AS Emp ORDER BY Salary LIMIT 1;