a query to select maxmun 3 salaries of employee table

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a query to select maxmun 3 salaries of employee table..

Answer / tulasi

select * from (select * from emp order by sal desc) where
rownum<=3;

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a query to select maxmun 3 salaries of employee table..

Answer / krishna kumar r

SELECT E1.ENAME,E1.SAL FROM EMP E1 WHERE 3>(SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM EMP E2 WHERE E2.SAL>E1.SAL ) ORDER BY SAL DESC

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a query to select maxmun 3 salaries of employee table..

Answer / chaitanya

Select sal from emp order by desc fetch first 3 rows only;

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a query to select maxmun 3 salaries of employee table..

Answer / munna

select * from emp e where &n=(select count(distinct sal)
from emp ee where e.sal<=ee.sal);

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a query to select maxmun 3 salaries of employee table..

Answer / suresh babu

select * from employees a where 3 <= select count(distinct
b.salary) from employees b where a.salary >= b.salary);

This query,which returns the first maximum salary from
employees table.

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a query to select maxmun 3 salaries of employee table..

Answer / dhanya

select rnk, no,sal from (
SELECT DENSE_rank()over(partition by no order by sal desc ) RNK,d2.no,sal FROM DUMMY2 d2)
where rnk =2;

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a query to select maxmun 3 salaries of employee table..

Answer / kannan

select * from emp
where sal in (select max(sal) from emp
where level<=3
connect by prior sal>sal
group by level)

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a query to select maxmun 3 salaries of employee table..

Answer / raju

select * from emp a where 3>=(select count(distinct(b.sal))
from emp b where b.sal>=a.sal )

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a query to select maxmun 3 salaries of employee table..

Answer / elumalai.k

select top 3 salary from employee order by salary desc

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a query to select maxmun 3 salaries of employee table..

Answer / ron

if you need to select by department then analytic function
is more readable:
1. use row_number() partition by dept order by sal desc as rn,
2. in where clause choose rn <4;

you can use rank() instead; if 2 or more employees have same
salary.

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