How to get third highest salary in SQL server

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Employee table as follows

Name	Salary
Ram     12000
Asif	15000
Suresh	15000
mohan	18000
Bhuva	19000
asif	25500
Pavan	34000

i want to get the third highest salary using the above Employee table.

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(removed repetition)

Posted 13-Sep-17 5:53am

sudhakarthikeyan

Updated 13-Sep-17 6:33am

CPallini

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2017-09-13T06:03:00

Try:

SQL

WITH myTableWithRows AS (
	SELECT (ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY myTable.Salary DESC)) as row,*
	FROM myTable)
SELECT * FROM myTableWithRows WHERE row = 3

Or:

SQL

SELECT * 
FROM (
    SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY Salary DESC) AS RowNum
    FROM [MyTable]   
) AS MyDerivedTable
WHERE MyDerivedTable.RowNum = 3