How can I select the record with the 2nd highest salary in database Oracle?

Question

Suppose I have a table employee with id, user_name, salary. How can I select the record with the 2nd highest salary in Oracle?

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Answer 1

WITH records
AS
(
    SELECT  id, user_name, salary,
            DENSE_RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY id ORDER BY salary DESC) rn
    FROM    tableName
)
SELECT  id, user_name, salary
FROM    records 
WHERE   rn = 2

• DENSE_RANK()

Answer 2

This query helps me every time for problems like this. Replace N with position..

select *
from(
     select *
     from (select * from TABLE_NAME order by SALARY_COLUMN desc)
     where rownum <=N
    )
where SALARY_COLUMN <= all(
                select SALARY_COLUMN
                from (select * from TABLE_NAME order by SALARY_COLUMN desc)
                where rownum <=N
               );

Answer 3

select * from emp where sal = (
select sal from
     (select rownum n,a.sal from
    ( select distinct sal from emp order by sal desc) a)
where n = 2);

This is more optimum, it suits all scenarios...

Answer 4

Replace N with your Highest Number

SELECT *
FROM Employee Emp1
WHERE (N-1) = (
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(Emp2.Salary))
FROM Employee Emp2
WHERE Emp2.Salary > Emp1.Salary)

Explanation

The query above can be quite confusing if you have not seen anything like it before – the inner query is what’s called a correlated sub-query because the inner query (the subquery) uses a value from the outer query (in this case the Emp1 table) in it’s WHERE clause.

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Answer 5

Syntax it for Sql server

SELECT MAX(Salary) as 'Salary' from EmployeeDetails
where Salary NOT IN
(
SELECT TOP n-1 (SALARY) from EmployeeDetails ORDER BY Salary Desc
)

To get 2nd highest salary of employee then we need replace “n” with 2 our query like will be this

SELECT MAX(Salary) as 'Salary' from EmployeeDetails
where Salary NOT IN
(
SELECT TOP 1 (SALARY) from EmployeeDetails ORDER BY Salary Desc
)

3rd highest salary of employee

SELECT MAX(Salary) as 'Salary' from EmployeeDetails
where Salary NOT IN
(
SELECT TOP 2 (SALARY) from EmployeeDetails ORDER BY Salary Desc
)

Answer 6

This query works in SQL*PLUS to find out the 2nd Highest Salary -

SELECT * FROM EMP
WHERE SAL = (SELECT MAX(SAL) FROM EMP
WHERE SAL < (SELECT MAX(SAL) FROM EMP));

This is double sub-query.

I hope this helps you..