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 is the simple query .. if u want the second minimum then just change the max to min and change the less than(<) sign to grater than(>).

    select max(column_name) from table_name where column_name<(select max(column_name) from table_name)