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SQL - Finding Second Highest Salary

How to find the second highest salary?

EMPLOYEE table has fields EMP_ID and SALARY how do you find the second highest salary?

Solution:
We can write a sub-query to achieve the result

SELECT MAX(SALARY)
FROM EMPLOYEE
WHERE SALARY NOT IN (SELECT MAX(SALARY) FROM EMPLOYEE)

The first sub-query [SELECT MAX(SALARY) FROM EMPLOYEE] in the WHERE clause will return the MAX SALARY in the table and the main query SELECT’s the MAX SALARY from the results which doesn’t have the highest SALARY.

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