PU Second Highest Salary

Jan 01, 1970

Write a SQL query to get the second highest salary from the Employee table.

+----+--------+
| Id | Salary |
+----+--------+
| 1  | 100    |
| 2  | 200    |
| 3  | 300    |
+----+--------+

For example, given the above Employee table, the query should return 200 as the second highest salary. If there is no second highest salary, then the query should return null.

+---------------------+
| SecondHighestSalary |
+---------------------+
| 200                 |
+---------------------+

Solution 1:

# Write your MySQL query statement below
SELECT max(Salary) AS SecondHighestSalary
FROM Employee
WHERE Salary < (SELECT max(Salary) FROM Employee)

Solution 2:

# Write your MySQL query statement below
SELECT 
(
SELECT DISTINCT Salary 
FROM Employee
ORDER BY Salary DESC
LIMIT 1 OFFSET 1
) AS SecondHighestSalary

Summary:

  • NULL is difficult to handle.
  • https://discuss.leetcode.com/topic/13286/based-on-count-and-easy-to-extend-to-n

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