find out the third highest salary?

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find out the third highest salary?..

Answer / biswapratap singh

SELECT MIN(sal) FROM emp WHERE
sal IN (SELECT distinct TOP 3 sal FROM emp ORDER BY sal DESC)

Is This Answer Correct ?    214 Yes 73 No

find out the third highest salary?..

Answer / neha

select max(sal) from emp where sal <(select max(sal)from emp
where sal<(select max(sal) from emp));

Is This Answer Correct ?    103 Yes 31 No

find out the third highest salary?..

Answer / sanjeev kumar p

select * from emp e1 where (3-1) = (select count(distinct
(e2.sal)) from emp e2 where e2.sal>e1.sal)

Is This Answer Correct ?    99 Yes 51 No

find out the third highest salary?..

Answer / arijit

donno whether the rest are correct ..but this one is:-
select max(sal) from emp where sal<(select max(sal) from emp
where sal<( select max(sal) from emp));

Is This Answer Correct ?    52 Yes 17 No

find out the third highest salary?..

Answer / harmeet

Hi, this query will gives the third highest salary from table

select * from emp e
where 3 = (select count(sal) from emp
where e.sal < sal);

To dispay 5th highest salary, just change the number 3 to 5.
Like that we can find top N salaries.

I hope i'm not wrong.

Is This Answer Correct ?    44 Yes 16 No

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Answer / akshita

select * from (select e.*,rownum r from (select distinct
sal from emp order by sal desc) e) where r = 3

Is This Answer Correct ?    43 Yes 16 No

find out the third highest salary?..

Answer / suresh kumar

Hi every body,

I give the standard format Query for this type of top most
and who are the top n people in the organization like that

If we take EMP table

Select * from EMP A where &n= (select count (distinct
(sal)) from EMP B where B.sal>A.sal)

If we give n value 1 or 2 or 3….etc then we gets top one,
top second, and top third person details.

This same query can we use top n people who are earning
maximum salaries in the Organization

Select * from EMP A where &n> (select count (distinct
(sal)) from EMP B where B.sal>A.sal)

Is This Answer Correct ?    38 Yes 19 No

find out the third highest salary?..

Answer / punit chauhan

select * from emp where sal<(select max(sal) from emp
where sal<(select max(sal) from emp))


punit chauhan
iMS NOIDA
doing MCA

Is This Answer Correct ?    12 Yes 0 No

find out the third highest salary?..

Answer / punit chauhan

select * from emp_record e1 where (3-1) = (select count ( distinct (e2.salary)) from emp_record e2 where e2.salary > e1.salary

Is This Answer Correct ?    12 Yes 0 No

find out the third highest salary?..

Answer / selvaraj anna university coe

In ORACLE 10g,

SELECT * FROM employee x WHERE 3 = (SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT
salary)
FROM employee y WHERE x.salary <= y.salary);

Is This Answer Correct ?    16 Yes 5 No

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