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

Try This one

    select * from
   (
    select name,salary,ROW_NUMBER() over( order by Salary desc) as
    rownum from    employee
   ) as t where t.rownum=2

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