– Generic Logic To Find Highest Salary
– Query can be used to find out n’th salary, set @rowNum = n where n is an integer

– Create a table
CREATE TABLE Employee
(

Name varchar(50) NOT NULL,
Salary int NOT NULL

)

– Insert the values
INSERT INTO Employee(Name, Salary)
VALUES (‘e5′, 45000)

INSERT INTO Employee(Name, Salary)
VALUES (‘e3′,  30000)

INSERT INTO Employee( Name, Salary )
VALUES (‘e2′,  49000)

INSERT INTO Employee( Name, Salary )
VALUES (‘e4′,  36600)

INSERT INTO Employee( Name, Salary )
VALUES (‘e1′  ,  58000)

SELECT * FROM Employee

– Select second highest salary
DECLARE @rowNum int
SET @rowNum = 2

Select top 1 * from Employee
WHERE salary in (SELECT TOP (@rowNum) salary FROM Employee ORDER BY salary DESC) ORDER BY salary

–Gauri Deshpande and Pawan Kumar
pawankkmr@hotmail.com