How to find n'th highest value of a column?

Question

Is there a command akin to:

• 2nd highest salary from tbl_salary or

• 4th highest salary from tbl_salary ?

Answer 1

Here is a very simple way to get the result of n'th highest value

put n=2 to get second highest salary
pur n=4 to get fourth highest salary
and so on...

Here is query
if n=2

select salary from tbl_salary e1
where 2 = (
select distinct(count(salary))
from tbl_salary e2
where e1.salary< e2.salary
)

Best luck