Given an employee table, how would you find out the second
highest salary?
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Answer / sowjanya
Select * from emp where sal=(select Max(sal) from emp where
sal<(select Max(Sal) from emp)
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 7 Yes | 0 No |
Answer / trived
select * from emp
where n-1 = (select count(*) from emp e
where emp.salary<e.salary)
in place of n-1 you can keep zero for first hight salary
and 1 for second hightest salary.....etc
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 9 Yes | 3 No |
Answer / rony sunny
SELECT TOP 1 salary
FROM (
SELECT DISTINCT TOP 2 salary
FROM employee
ORDER BY salary DESC) a
ORDER BY salary
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 5 Yes | 1 No |
Answer / ravikumar
select ename,esal from
(select ename,esal from hsal
order by esal desc)
where rownum <=2
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 2 Yes | 0 No |
Answer / balindra sahani
select max(sal) from emp
where sal not in (select max(sal) from emp )
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 2 Yes | 0 No |
Answer / karna
select top 1 a.salary,* from emp a
where a.salary not in(select top (n-1) b.salary from emp b)
here n is the Nth values:if you want secong highest: keep n
as 2 so the query will become
select top 1 a.salary,* from emp a
where a.salary not in(select top 1 b.salary from emp b)
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 3 Yes | 2 No |
Answer / balindra sahani
select max(sal) from emp
where sal not in (select max(sal) from emp order by sal desc )
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 1 Yes | 0 No |
Answer / mithilesh mishra
Select Max(sal) from emp where sal not in (select max(sal)
from emp)
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 1 Yes | 0 No |
Answer / vivek mohan singh
select salary from tablename order by salary desc limit 1,1;
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 2 Yes | 3 No |
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