Answer / your name

Forget everything...Here it goes..in a simple way...

Select salary from tbl_name a where
n = (Select count(distinct(count(*))) from tbl_name b
where b.salary>=a.salary)

Substitute you value for n. thats all.

Answer / aditya kumar bisoi

SELECT EmpId,Salary
FROM(SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY Salary Desc) AS [ROW_NUMBER],* FROM (SELECT DISTINCT Salary,Empid FROM EMPDetails)Emp)Emp1
WHERE ROW_NUMBER BETWEEN 2 AND 5

Answer / prasant palo

with ttble as
(
select top 3 empid,empname,empsalary
from
emptable
order by empsalary desc
)
-- above will create a common table expression with name
--ttable
-- to know about it search for commontable expression
select top 1 empid,empname,empsalary
from
ttable
order by empsalary asc

Answer / prashant narvekar

1. solution taken as std_id instead of salary
select max( b.std_id) from std_info a
inner join std_info b on a.std_id <> b.std_id
where a.std_id > b.std_id

2. solution
select max(std_id) from std_info
where std_id < ( select max(std_id) from std_info)

Answer / savita vishwakarma

select max(sal)
from (select rownum
from emp
order by sal desc)
where rownum=2

Answer / vishakha shrivastava

for second largest salary
Select * from emp a where 2=(select count(*) from emp b
where a.sal<=b.sal)

Above mentioned query can also be used for 3 ,4 ..n

Select * from emp a where 3=(select count(*) from emp b
where a.sal<=b.sal)

Answer / kaku

Yeh Saare answer galat hain

Answer / vinay singh

To find any number of Salary..

Select * From Table E1 Where
(n-1) = (Select Count(Distinct(E2.Sal)) From Table E2
Where E2.Sal> E1.Sal)


**Vinay Singh

Answer / balaji

TO FIND THE N-1th HIGHEST SALARY IN EMP TABLE

Select Min(salary) from emptable where salary not in(Select
Min(salary) from emptable)

Answer / subhranghshu bhattacharjee

another way u can find 2nd largest salary,3rd largest
salary ... so on

select sal from(select sal from emp order by sal desc)
where rownum<3
minus
select sal from(select sal from emp order by sal desc)
where rownum<2

only change rownum to find various largest salary

Subhranghshu Bhattacharjee

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