How to get second highest salaried employees in mysql - mysql

Question

I have an employee table in MySQL with below entries. I need to find all the employees having second highest salaries. In this case, it would be c and d.
id | name | salary
1 | a | 1000
2 | b | 1000
3 | c | 500
4 | d | 500
5 | e | 400
I tried running below query
SELECT name, MAX(salary) FROM employee WHERE salary < (SELECT MAX(salary) from employee);
But this query returns just c as a result. How to get both c and d in result?
I looked at bunch of similar questions posted but none of them mentioned how to get multiple rows for second highest salary.

Answer 1

You can esily get second highest salary from table
SELECT MAX(salary) FROM Employee WHERE Salary NOT IN ( SELECT Max(Salary) FROM Employee);

Answer 2

You can find the second highest salary with:
SELECT salary
FROM employee
GROUP BY salary
ORDER BY salary DESC
LIMIT 1, 1
Then either feed the result of that to another query in the same transaction:
SELECT *
FROM employee
WHERE salary = ?
Or do it as a subquery:
SELECT *
FROM employee
WHERE salary = (
SELECT salary
FROM employee
GROUP BY salary
ORDER BY salary DESC
LIMIT 1, 1
)

Answer 3

In case you want migrate to MSSQL Server :).
SELECT * FROM (
SELECT MAX(salary) T,RANK() OVER (ORDER BY SALARY DESC) AS RankBySalary FROM Employees
GROUP BY SALARY ) TB
WHERE RankBySalary = 3
Or much better:
SELECT * FROM
(
SELECT ID,NAME,SALARY,DENSE_RANK() OVER (ORDER BY SALARY DESC) AS RankBySalary FROM employee
)
TB WHERE RankBySalary = 2

Answer 4

SELECT *
FROM employee one1
WHERE ( N ) = (
SELECT COUNT( one2.salary )
FROM employee one2
WHERE one2.salary > one1.salary
)
Note : N means Nth highest salary
Demo

Answer 5

First find the second highest salary amount then select the rows having that salary.
Query
select * from Employees
where Salary = (
select min(t.salary) from (
select salary
from Employees
group by salary
order by salary desc limit 2
)t
);
SQL Fiddle demo

Answer 6

I suggest that you must first select the 2nd highest salary first and then use the derived table with JOIN on original table. like this:
SELECT
original_record.*
FROM
salary_record AS original_record
JOIN
(SELECT
distinct salary
FROM
salary_record
ORDER BY 1
LIMIT 1,1
) AS derived_record
ON
original_record.salary = derived_record.salary
PS: I have renamed your employee table as salary_record table
Also have a look at Varoon Sahgal's article on Nth highest salary, here: http://www.programmerinterview.com/index.php/database-sql/find-nth-highest-salary-sql/ . The comments-section of this article as well as the article itself has some optimized examples.

Answer 7

select name,max(salary) from employee x where (n-1)=(select count(distinct salary)from employee y where x.salary<y.salary);
Nth max salary

Answer 8

-- IF THIS TABLE EXISTS, DROP IT
DROP TABLE E2;
-- THE FOLLOWING CTE ARRANGES SALARIES IN DECENDING ORDER
WITH copytable(Salary) AS
(
SELECT Emp1.Salary
FROM Employees AS Emp1, Employees AS Emp2
WHERE Emp1.Salary > Emp2.salary
GROUP BY Emp1.Salary
)
-- COPY THE CTE IN A TABLE
SELECT * INTO E2 FROM copytable
-- GIVES THE RANK TO THE SALARY IN DECENDING ORDER
ALTER TABLE E2
ADD RankOfSalary INT IDENTITY(1, 1)
-- TO GET THE LOWEST RANK WHICH WILL BE THE HIGHEST SALARY
DECLARE #rankOfSalary int;
SELECT #rankOfSalary = COUNT(Salary) from E2;
-- SELECTING THE SECOND LARGEST SALARY
DECLARE #SelectSalary INT
SELECT #SelectSalary = Salary from E2 where RankOfSalary = #rankOfSalary - 1;
THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT WITHOUT USING max(), order by, top in sql server
to select second largest salary of employees without using max(), order by, top in sql server
JUST WANTED TO POST THIS :p

Answer 9

You can get it by this:
2nd Largest Salary:
SELECT name, salary
FROM employees
WHERE salary = (SELECT MAX(salary) FROM employees WHERE salary < (SELECT MAX(salary) FROM employees))
3rd Largest Salary:
SELECT name, salary
FROM employees
WHERE salary = (SELECT MAX(salary) FROM employees WHERE salary < (SELECT MAX(salary) FROM employees WHERE salary < (SELECT MAX(salary) FROM employees)))
Helpful links:
http://www.mysqltutorial.org/select-nth-highest-record-database-table-using-mysql.aspx
http://www.programmerinterview.com/index.php/database-sql/find-nth-highest-salary-sql/
http://www.coderanch.com/t/530503/JDBC/databases/select-Nth-highest-salary-table

Answer 10

try this TO GET BOTH c AND d
SELECT
name, salary
FROM
employee
WHERE salary = (
SELECT salary
FROM employee
GROUP BY salary
ORDER BY salary DESC
LIMIT 1,1
);