how to retrieve the top 2 salaried persons from a database?

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how to retrieve the top 2 salaried persons from a database?..

Answer / abc

Select salary from (select salary from employees order by
salary desc) where rownum <=2;

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how to retrieve the top 2 salaried persons from a database?..

Answer / rajkumar

select top 1 colmn from table_name where colmn in
(select top 2 colmn from table_name where colmn is not
null order by colmn desc)

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how to retrieve the top 2 salaried persons from a database?..

Answer / arun

select salary from(select salary from(select distinct salary from employees order by salary desc) where rownum<=2 order by salary) where rownum=1;

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how to retrieve the top 2 salaried persons from a database?..

Answer / srinivas

select * from emp m
where
(select count(distinct sal)+1 from emp s
where s.sal>m.sal)<=2
order by sal desc

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how to retrieve the top 2 salaried persons from a database?..

Answer / mamta

Select sal
from salary_tbl
where rownum <= 2
order by sal desc;

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how to retrieve the top 2 salaried persons from a database?..

Answer / anusreekr

An error is occuring saying "unknown column rownum".
Please let me know where rownum feature is available in all
the mysql versions.The server version i am using is 5.5.21.

Thanks

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how to retrieve the top 2 salaried persons from a database?..

Answer / unknown

Select salary from (select salary from employees) where
rownum <=2;

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7 No

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