Find max and second max salary for a employee table MySQL

Question

Suppose that you are given the following simple database table called Employee that has 2 columns named Employee ID and Salary:

  Employee
  Employee ID    S         


        

Answer 1

i think that the simple way in oracle is this:

SELECT Salary FROM
(SELECT DISTINCT Salary FROM Employee ORDER BY Salary desc)
WHERE ROWNUM <= 2;

Answer 2

Find Max salary of an employee

SELECT MAX(Salary) FROM Employee

Find Second Highest Salary

SELECT MAX(Salary) FROM Employee 
Where Salary Not In (Select MAX(Salary) FROM Employee)

OR

SELECT  MAX(Salary) FROM Employee
WHERE Salary <> (SELECT MAX(Salary) FROM Employee )

Answer 3

Select Distinct sal From emp Order By sal Desc Limit 1,1;

It will take all Distinct sal. And Limit 1,1 means: leaves top one record and print 1 record.

Answer 4

Simplest way to fetch second max salary & nth salary

select 
 DISTINCT(salary) 
from employee 
 order by salary desc 
limit 1,1

Note:

limit 0,1  - Top max salary

limit 1,1  - Second max salary

limit 2,1  - Third max salary

limit 3,1  - Fourth max salary

Answer 5

Try below Query, was working for me to find Nth highest number salary. Just replace your number with nth_No

Select DISTINCT TOP 1 salary
from 
(Select DISTINCT TOP *nth_No* salary
from Employee
ORDER BY Salary DESC)
Result
ORDER BY Salary

Answer 6

This will work To find the nth maximum number

SELECT 
    TOP 1 * from (SELECT TOP  nth_largest_no * FROM Products Order by price desc) ORDER BY price asc;

For Fifth Largest number

SELECT 
  TOP 1 *  from (SELECT TOP  5 * FROM Products Order by price desc) ORDER BY price asc;