T-SQL How to select only Second row from a table?

Question

I have a table and I need to retrieve the ID of the Second row. How to achieve that ?

By Top 2 I select the two first rows, but I need only

Answer 1

Use ROW_NUMBER() to number the rows, but use TOP to only process the first two.

try this:

DECLARE @YourTable table (YourColumn int)
INSERT @YourTable VALUES (5)
INSERT @YourTable VALUES (7)
INSERT @YourTable VALUES (9)
INSERT @YourTable VALUES (17)
INSERT @YourTable VALUES (25)

;WITH YourCTE AS
(
  SELECT TOP 2
    *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY YourColumn) AS RowNumber
  FROM @YourTable
) 
SELECT *
FROM YourCTE
WHERE RowNumber=2

OUTPUT:

YourColumn  RowNumber
----------- --------------------
7           2

(1 row(s) affected)