Answer / kunal gupta

These are the easiest and best queries and 100% tested.

1) 2nd highest salary


select top 1 sal from (Select top 2 sal from emp group by
sal order by sal desc) e order by sal


like wise you can find n highet salar(e.g 5th largest 6th
largest)

select top 1 sal from (Select top [n] sal from emp group by
sal order by sal desc) e order by sal


2) fetch all duplicated records from the table

e.g If table has three columns named 'col1', 'col2'
and 'col3'

select col1, col2, col3 from tbl group by col1, col2, col
having count(col1)>1

Answer / ashwini

2. Second highest salary from the table

select top 1 salary from emp where salary NOT IN
(SELECT MAX(salary) FROM emp)order by salary desc

Answer / rajkumar v

Ans:1
select Column_Name from Table_Name group by Column_Name
having count(Column_Name )>1

Ans:2
salary - column name

SELECT TOP 1 salary FROM (SELECT DISTINCT TOP 2 salary FROM
Table_Name ORDER BY salary DESC) A ORDER BY salary

Answer / amit kumar

(1) Query to fetch 2'nd highest salary:

Select max(sal) from emptable where sal not in (Select
max(sal) from emptable)

(2) How to fetch all the duplicate records from the table.

SELECT COUNT(*), <COLUMN_NAME> FROM EDUCATION GROUP BY
<COLUMN_NAME>

Answer / rajkumar v

ANS 1:
select p.ColumnName from tablname p group by p.ColumnName

ans2:

Select min(salary)FROM emp WHERE (salary IN (SELECT
TOP 2 salary FROM emp ORDER BY salary DESC))
Or
Select top 1 salary from (select top 2 salary from emp
order by salary desc) emp order by salary

Answer / saradhi

How to fetch the second highest salary from the table.
SELECT TOP 1 salary
FROM (
SELECT DISTINCT TOP n salary
FROM employee
ORDER BY salary DESC) a
ORDER BY salary
where n > 1 (n is always greater than one)

Answer / oracle.hemant

select max(salary) from emp where salary<(select max(salary)
from emp)

Answer / neelu

select max(salary) from employees where rownum<= 2
order by salary desc

Answer / sneha s

fetch duplicate records from table:
select column_name from table_name group by column_name having count(column_name)>1;

get the second highest salary:
select distinct salary from emp order by salary desc limit 1,1;

Answer / anbarasan k kanagaraj

select salary from user order by salary desc LIMIT 1, 1

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