How to find the 2nd highest salary from an employee table in MYSQL?

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I have tried so many MYSQL queries from many sites, but i cant get my required result.Can anyone please help me out on this issue?

Posted 27-Oct-14 22:20pm

Janardhanam Julapalli

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George Jonsson · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-27T22:30:00

Solution 1

You can try

SQL

SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY desired_column DESC LIMIT 2;

This query will give you 2 rows in return where the second row is the one you want.
(I use SELECT * as I know nothing about your table structure)

I hope this helps.

Posted 27-Oct-14 22:30pm

George Jonsson

Updated 27-Oct-14 22:31pm

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Janardhanam Julapalli 28-Oct-14 4:46am

@George Jonsson-This is working fine.

George Jonsson 28-Oct-14 4:52am

Thanks, but see solution 3 for a more elegant code.

Maciej Los 28-Oct-14 12:20pm

+5!

Jörgen Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-27T22:42:00

Solution 3

So read the official documentation[^].

The simplest query would probably be:

SQL

SELECT  *
FROM    EMPLOYEES e
ORDER BY e.SALARY DESC
LIMIT 1,1;

Posted 27-Oct-14 22:42pm

Jörgen Andersson

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Janardhanam Julapalli 28-Oct-14 4:49am

Very Impressive dude@Jorgen Andersson

George Jonsson 28-Oct-14 4:51am

One learns something new everyday.

Pikoh 28-Oct-14 4:54am

Fived. Simple and elegant.

Maciej Los 28-Oct-14 12:19pm

+5!

Shweta N Mishra 29-Oct-14 8:25am

I guess "LIMIT" works in MySQL, How about SQL server do we have any replace for it?

Jörgen Andersson 29-Oct-14 8:50am

SELECT * FROM MyTable ORDER BY MYCOLUMN OFFSET 10 FETCH 10

But this only works from SQLServer 2012 and later. Another limitation is that it only works together with ORDER BY.

Pikoh · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-27T22:32:00

Solution 2

Try something like this

SQL

SELECT * FROM
(SELECT *
FROM Workers
ORDER BY salary DESC
LIMIT 2) alias
ORDER BY salary
LIMIT 1

I've got no mysql at hand to try it, so i hope it works

Posted 27-Oct-14 22:32pm

Pikoh

Updated 27-Oct-14 22:52pm

v2

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Janardhanam Julapalli 28-Oct-14 4:48am

@pikoh-This is working, but there is a small alias error.This is my updated code
SELECT * FROM
(SELECT *
FROM user_details
ORDER BY salary DESC
LIMIT 2)
user_details ORDER BY salary
LIMIT 1

Pikoh 28-Oct-14 4:53am

You are right. I have updated solution :)

Janardhanam Julapalli 28-Oct-14 5:03am

Thank u all for ur replies.I am seeing this forum as very useful one.