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

Creating temporary table

Create Table #Employee (Id int identity(1,1), Name varchar(500), Salary int)

Insert data

Insert Into #Employee
    Select 'Abul', 5000
Union ALL 
    Select 'Babul', 6000
Union ALL 
    Select 'Kabul', 7000
Union ALL 
    Select 'Ibul', 8000
Union ALL 
    Select 'Dabul', 9000

Query will be

select top 1 * from #Employee a
Where a.id <> (Select top 1 b.id from #Employee b ORDER BY b.Salary desc)
order by a.Salary desc

Drop table

drop table #Empoyee