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 to get the respective nth highest salary.

SELECT
    *
FROM
    emp e1
WHERE
    2 = (
        SELECT
            COUNT(salary)
        FROM
            emp e2
        WHERE
            e2.salary >= e1.salary
    )