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

Here's a simple approach:

select name
from employee
where salary=(select max(salary)
              from(select salary from employee
                   minus
                   select max(salary) from employee));