How would I find the second largest salary from the employee table

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How would I go about querying for the second largest salary from all employees in my Employee table

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SELECT     TOP 1 salary FROM               SELECT             TOP 2 salary         FROM             employees       sal ORDER BY     salary DESC

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To find second max salary from employee   SELECT MAX salary  FROM employee WHERE salary NOT IN       SELECT MAX  salary  FROM employee     To find first and second max salary from employee   SELECT salary FROM       SELECT DISTINCT salary  FROM employee ORDER BY salary DESC   WHERE rownum lt  2   This queries are working fine because i have used

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select distinct t1 sal   from emp t1  where  amp n  select count distinct t2 sal   from emp t2 where t1 sal lt  t2 sal     Output  Enter value for n   if you want 2nd highest  enter 2  if you want 5 enter n 3

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Most of the other answers seem to be db specific   General SQL query should be as follows   select    sal  from    emp a  where    N           select          count distinct sal         from          emp b        where          a sal  lt   b sal      where    N   any value   and this query should be able to work on any database

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select   from compensation where Salary           select top 1 Salary from         select top 2 Salary from compensation        group by Salary order by Salary desc  top2       order by Salary    which will give you all rows with second highest salary  which a few people may share

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Try this   SELECT max salary  FROM emptable WHERE salary  lt   SELECT max salary                  FROM emptable

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select max Salary  from Employee  where Salary  not in  Select Max Salary  from Employee

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Try something like   SELECT TOP 1 compensation FROM     SELECT TOP 2 compensation FROM employees   ORDER BY compensation DESC   AS em ORDER BY compensation ASC   Essentially    Find the top 2 salaries in descending order  Of those 2  find the top salary in ascending order  The selected value is the second-highest salary    If the salaries aren t distinct  you can use SELECT DISTINCT TOP     instead

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select max Emp Sal   from Employee a where 1     select count              from Employee b          where b Emp Sal  gt  a Emp Sal    Yes running man

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Simple Answer   SELECT distinct sal  FROM emp ORDER BY sal DESC LIMIT 1  1    You will get only the second max salary   And if you need any 3rd or 4th or Nth value you can increase the first value followed by LIMIT  n-1  ie  for 4th salary   LIMIT 3  1

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Try this   SELECT     salary      employeeid FROM     employees ORDER BY     salary DESC LIMIT 2   Then just get the second row

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select max sal  from emp where sal not in  select max sal  from emp     OR  select max salary  from emp table  where sal lt  select max salary from emp

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select   from emp  where sal  select min sal  from   select sal from select distinct sal from emp order by sal desc  where rownum lt  n      n can be the value you want to see        you can see all the fields of that person who having nth highest salary strong text

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Maybe you should use DENSE RANK   SELECT   FROM          SELECT           Salary             DENSE RANK            OVER                       ORDER BY  Salary  DESC   AS rnk        FROM  Table1         GROUP BY  Num         AS A WHERE A rnk   2

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Try this   select max Emp Sal   from Employee a where 1     select count              from Employee b          where b Emp Sal  gt  a Emp Sal

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To select name of employee whose salary is second highest  SELECT name FROM employee WHERE salary           SELECT MIN salary  FROM                SELECT TOP  2  salary               FROM employee               ORDER BY salary DESC

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select max Salary  from Employee  where Salary   not in  Select top4 salary from Employee     because answer is as follows  max 5 6 7 8   so 5th highest record will be displayed  first four will not be considered

[sql] How would I find the second largest salary from the employee table?

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