second highest number from column

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Can any body plz tellme how we can find the second highest number from column in sql server 2005?
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the ans should be 40

Posted 19-Aug-10 19:26pm

jayant812

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thatraja · Answer 1 · 2010-08-19T20:21:00

Solution 2

SQL

SELECT MAX(SALARY) FROM EMPLOYEE WHERE SALARY < (SELECT MAX(SALARY) FROM EMPLOYEE)

Posted 19-Aug-10 20:21pm

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AspDotNetDev 30-Aug-10 15:49pm

Reason for my vote of 5
This improves upon my answer.

tarun_j200 · Answer 2 · 2010-08-26T23:31:00

Solution 4

SQL

SELECT SALARY FROM Employee t1 WHERE
2=(SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT t2.SALARY) FROM Employee t2 WHERE t2.SALARY >= t1.SALARY)

Posted 26-Aug-10 23:31pm

tarun_j200

hiren soni · Answer 3 · 2010-08-30T06:52:00

Solution 5

I have given this ans in this thread. Check it out

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Posted 30-Aug-10 6:52am

hiren soni

AspDotNetDev · Answer 4 · 2010-08-30T07:22:00

Solution 6

SQL

SELECT TOP 1
    Column1
FROM Table1
WHERE
    Column1 <> (SELECT MAX(Column1) FROM Table1)
ORDER BY
    Column1 DESC

Posted 30-Aug-10 7:22am

AspDotNetDev

Nyarost · Answer 5 · 2010-08-19T19:40:00

Solution 1

Something like:

SELECT TOP 2 column FROM table LIMIT 1, 1

???

Posted 19-Aug-10 19:40pm

Nyarost

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jayant812 20-Aug-10 1:48am

There is no LIMIT function in Sql server 2005 so it dosent work

Nyarost 20-Aug-10 3:49am

NO LIMIT? Wow!

SELECT column, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY column DESC) AS num WHERE num = 2 ?

Sandeep Mewara · Answer 6 · 2010-08-19T20:30:00

Solution 3

SQL

SELECT TOP 1 SALARY FROM Employee WHERE SALARY IN (SELECT TOP 2 SALARY FROM Employee ORDER BY ASC)

It can have multiple variants... instead of top, use Max or so.

Posted 19-Aug-10 20:30pm

Sandeep Mewara

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AspDotNetDev 30-Aug-10 13:37pm

Sandeep, this will not work. You did not order the outer query by the salary descending. In fact, SQL Server should complain that you have an ORDER BY clause on an inner query, which will always be ignored. Also, you say "ORDER BY ASC" (i.e., you don't specify a column to order by). See my answer.

Sandeep Mewara 30-Aug-10 13:39pm

Sorry to say... but this works. We already have something simialr in place working fine.
Why not have a quick test if you have a SQL environment with you?

Sandeep Mewara 30-Aug-10 13:42pm

One thing though, might be I missed the Orderby column name. Agreed on this. That was a quick typo to the question! :doh:

AspDotNetDev 30-Aug-10 14:13pm

It may work for you (once you fix that typo) because there is no ordering on the columns in the outer query and you may get the right one back by accident (as the TOP 1 will choose between them non-deterministically), but it will not work all of the time unless you put an ORDER BY on the outer query.