Find the second highest salary [duplicate]
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19-02-2021 - |
Question
Well it is a well known question. Consider the below
EmployeeID EmployeeName Department Salary
----------- --------------- --------------- ---------
1 T Cook Finance 40000.00
2 D Michael Finance 25000.00
3 A Smith Finance 25000.00
4 D Adams Finance 15000.00
5 M Williams IT 80000.00
6 D Jones IT 40000.00
7 J Miller IT 50000.00
8 L Lewis IT 50000.00
9 A Anderson Back-Office 25000.00
10 S Martin Back-Office 15000.00
11 J Garcia Back-Office 15000.00
12 T Clerk Back-Office 10000.00
We need to find out the second highest salary
With Cte As
(
Select
level
,Department
,Max(Salary)
From plc2_employees
Where level = 2
Connect By Prior (Salary) > Salary)
Group By level,Department
)
Select
Employeeid
,EmployeeName
,Department
,Salary
From plc2_employees e1
Inner Join Cte e2 On e1.Department = e2.Department
Order By
e1.Department
, e1.Salary desc
,e1.EmployeeID
is somehow not working... I am not getting the correct result. Could anyone please help me out.
Solution
If you're going to teach yourself how to deal with CONNECT BY, you should first find a problem that is suited to the construct. CONNECT BY is meant for processing data that's in a hierarchical form, which your example is not. Salaries are not related to each other in a hierarchical fashion. Trying to force-fit a construct on the wrong problem is frustrating and doesn't really teach you anything.
Take a look at the classic employee-manager relationship in the demo HR schema you can install with Oracle. All employees report to a manager, including managers (except the top guy). You can then use this schema to create a query to show, for example, the Organization Chart for the company.
OTHER TIPS
Something like
select * from
(
select EmployeeID, EmployeeName, Department, Salary,
rank () over (partition by Department order by Salary desc) r
from PLC2_Employees
)
where r = 2
Edit - tested it and it gives the answer you expected.
START WITH … CONNECT BY
is designed to explore data that forms a graph, by exploring all possible descending paths. You specify the root nodes in the START WITH
clause and the node connections in the CONNECT BY
clause (not in the WHERE
clause).
The WHERE
clause filters will be processed after the hierachical conditions, same for GROUP BY
and HAVING
(of course because GROUP BY
is computed after WHERE
).
Therefore you MUST here CONNECT BY PRIOR department = department
for example. You must also avoid that a node connection is done between two salaries when there is an intermediate salary.
Therefore the final query would resemble this:
SELECT level
, Department
, Salary
FROM plc2_employees pe1
START WITH pe1.salary = (select max(salary) from plc2_employees pe2 WHERE pe2.Department = pe1.Department)
CONNECT BY PRIOR pe1.Department = pe1.Department
AND PRIOR pe1.Salary > pe1.Salary
AND PRIOR pe1.Salary = ( SELECT MIN(Salary) FROM plc2_employees pe3
WHERE pe3.Department = pe1.Department
AND pe3.Salary > pe1.Salary
)
The recursion condition states that there is no intermediate salary between the child row and the parent row.
Note that this will really be unefficient…
Try this, it gives second highest salary
select MAX(Salary) as Salary
from Employee_salary
where Salary not in (select MAX(Salary) from Employee_salary)
You can use this query:
select * from
employee e1
where 2 = (select count (distinct (salary))
from employee e2
where e2.salary >=e1.salary);
find out second highest salary from employee table having column as salary: Database : DB2
with t as
(
select distinct salary from employee order by salary desc
),
tr as
(
select salary, row_Number() over() r from t
)
select salary from tr where r = 2
Try this, It gives second highest salary...
select MAX(Salary) as Salary
from Employee_salary
where Salary not in (select MAX(Salary) from Employee_salary )
If you want to find nth highest salary than you can use following query.... you need to do just one change..... Put the value of N=nth highest
Cheers....:)
SELECT * FROM Employee_salary Emp1
WHERE (N-1) = (SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(Emp2.Salary))
FROM Employee_salary Emp2
WHERE Emp2.Salary > Emp1.Salary)
This will work -
SELECT MIN(Salary)
FROM employee
WHERE salary IN (SELECT TOP 2 salary FROM employee ORDER BY salary DESC)
First, select the distinct salaries in descending order (from greatest to least), from that set select the top 2 and put in ascending order (placing number 2 on top), then from those 2 select top 1:
select top 1 s.Salary
from
(select top 2 t.Salary
from
(select distinct Salary
from PLC2_Employees
order by Salary desc) t
order by Salary asc) s