Given an employee table, how would you find out the second
highest salary?

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Given an employee table, how would you find out the second highest salary?..

Answer / sowjanya

Select * from emp where sal=(select Max(sal) from emp where
sal<(select Max(Sal) from emp)

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Given an employee table, how would you find out the second highest salary?..

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

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Given an employee table, how would you find out the second highest salary?..

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

Given an employee table, how would you find out the second highest salary?..

Answer / ravikumar

select ename,esal from
(select ename,esal from hsal
order by esal desc)
where rownum <=2

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Given an employee table, how would you find out the second highest salary?..

Answer / balindra sahani

select max(sal) from emp
where sal not in (select max(sal) from emp )

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Given an employee table, how would you find out the second highest salary?..

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)

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Given an employee table, how would you find out the second highest salary?..

Answer / balindra sahani

select max(sal) from emp
where sal not in (select max(sal) from emp order by sal desc )

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Given an employee table, how would you find out the second highest salary?..

Answer / mithilesh mishra

Select Max(sal) from emp where sal not in (select max(sal)
from emp)

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Given an employee table, how would you find out the second highest salary?..

Answer / vivek mohan singh

select salary from tablename order by salary desc limit 1,1;

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