Get Maximum sal from emp table

[Arjun Palanichamy]

Hi All..

How to get second maximum sal from emp table... for example

emp sal
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10 4000
20 1000
30 5000
40 9000
50 6000

from this table i want to get the second maximum sal example data : 50 6000, can you reply anybody...

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Thanks in Advance

P.Arjun

[Martin Simons]

order by salary and take the second record (or to be exact cycle through the results after the order by and take the second unique value, in order to avoid the first value appearing multiple times).

[Perumal Kasi]

select max(sal) from emp a where 2=(select count(distinct(sal)) from emp b
where a.sal<=b.sal);