Find nth highest salary in Sql Serever
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09-Dec-2015
I want to use Find nth highest salary in Sql Serever please help me.
Updated on 09-Dec-2015
Anonymous User
09-Dec-2015We can also use the TOP keyword (for databases that support the TOP keyword, like SQL Server) to find the nth highest salary.
To understand the query above, first look at the subquery, which simply finds the N highest salaries in the Employee table and arranges them in descending order. Then, the outer query will actually rearrange those values in ascending order, which is what the very last line “ORDER BY Salary” does, because of the fact that the ORDER BY Default is to sort values in ASCENDING order. Finally, that means the Nth highest salary will be at the top of the list of salaries, which means we just want the first row, which is exactly what “SELECT TOP 1 Salary”