How to find fifth highest salary in a single query in SQL Server

Question

How to find fifth highest salary in a single query in SQL Server

Answer 1

These work in SQL Server 2000

DECLARE @result int

SELECT TOP 5 @result = Salary FROM Employees ORDER BY Salary DESC

Syntax should be close. I can't test it at the moment.

Or you could go with a subquery:

SELECT MIN(Salary) FROM (
    SELECT TOP 5 Salary FROM Employees ORDER BY Salary DESC
) AS TopFive

Again, not positive if the syntax is exactly right, but the approach works.

Answer 2

You can try some thing like :

select salary
from Employees a
where 5=(select count(distinct salary)
         from Employees b
         where a.salary > b.salary)
order by salary desc

Answer 3

The below query to gets the Highest salary after particular Employee name.

Just have a look into that!

SELECT TOP 1 salary FROM (
    SELECT DISTINCT min(salary) salary
    FROM emp where salary > (select salary from emp where empname = 'John Hell') 
    ) a 
ORDER BY salary

Answer 4

SELECT TOP 1 salary
FROM (
    SELECT DISTINCT TOP n salary
    FROM employee
    ORDER BY salary DESC) a
ORDER BY salary
where n > 1 -- (n is always greater than one)

You can find any number of highest salary using this query.

Answer 5

SELECT MIN(Salary) FROM (
    SELECT TOP 2 Salary FROM empa ORDER BY Salary DESC
) AS TopFive

It's working correctly, please use it.

Answer 6

To find the 5th higest salary from a database, the query is..

select MIN(esal) from (
    select top 5 esal from tbemp order by esal desc) as sal

its working check it out