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

If you want to display the name of the employee who is getting the second highest salary then use this:

SELECT employee_name 
FROM employee
WHERE salary = (SELECT max(salary) 
                FROM employee
                WHERE salary < (SELECT max(salary) 
                                FROM employee);