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

I want to post here possibly easiest solution. It worked in mysql.

Please check at your end too:

SELECT name
FROM `emp`
WHERE salary = (
SELECT salary
FROM emp e
ORDER BY salary DESC
LIMIT 1
OFFSET 1