Answer / divya

select min(sal) from salarytbl where sal in(select distinct
top 3 sal from salarytbl order by sal desc)

Answer / shivaprasad

select distinct top 1 Salary from(select distinct top 3
Salary from Employee order by Salary DESC)temp order by
Salary;

Answer / paridhi

select top 1 salary from
(select top 1 salary from employee order by
salary desc) a
order by salary

Answer / santanu

3rd highest salary:

select max(sal) from emp
where sal < (select max(sal) from emp
where sal < (select max(sal) from emp))

Answer / shashi kumar

Select * from emptable e1 where(N=(select
count(DISTINCT(e2.empsal))from emptable e2 where
e2.empsal>=e1.empsal))

Answer / nitin berwal

select top 1 salary from(select top 3 salary from emp order
by desc) a

Answer / deepal saini

this is the best way to find out thethird highest salary from emp table

select max(sal) from emp where sal<(select max(sal) from emp where sal <(select max(sal)from emp));

Answer / gaurav

try this

select max(salary)
from employees
where salary < (select max(salary)
from employees
where salary < (select max(salary)
from employees));

Answer / prithvi

select Max(sal) from emp

This will give us 1highest sal

Select Max (sal) from where sal <(select Max(sal) from emp)

Select Max (sal) from where sal <(Select Max (sal) from
where sal <(select Max(sal) from emp))

Answer / siddharth mitra

select *
from (select row_number() over (order by salary asc) as
"ROW_NUM" from emp)
where ROW_NUM = 3;

This only works with oracle 8i and 9i,i.e., row_number is an
analytic function.

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