Hi,
Can anybody please explain me the flow of the below query.
I am not able to understand how this query works.
This query is for finding the Nth highest salary..
SELECT DISTINCT (a.sal)
FROM EMP A
WHERE &N = (SELECT COUNT (DISTINCT (b.sal)) FROM EMP B
WHERE a.sal<=b.sal);
If N = 2 then second highest salary will be the o/p.
If N = 3 then third highest salary will be the o/p.
and so on..
Thanks,
Nitin
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Answer Posted / avi
Above Answer is correct With small modification that it is a
corelated sub query first it considers sal from a like a.sal
then it compares with all the sal in a sub query the result
will be the no. of counts.This count compares with N value
which matches will be the Nth sal.
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