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176. Second Highest Salary

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Description

Table: Employee

+-------------+------+
| Column Name | Type |
+-------------+------+
| id          | int  |
| salary      | int  |
+-------------+------+
id is the primary key (column with unique values) for this table.
Each row of this table contains information about the salary of an employee.

 

Write a solution to find the second highest salary from the Employee table. If there is no second highest salary, return null (return None in Pandas).

The result format is in the following example.

 

Example 1:

Input: 
Employee table:
+----+--------+
| id | salary |
+----+--------+
| 1  | 100    |
| 2  | 200    |
| 3  | 300    |
+----+--------+
Output: 
+---------------------+
| SecondHighestSalary |
+---------------------+
| 200                 |
+---------------------+

Example 2:

Input: 
Employee table:
+----+--------+
| id | salary |
+----+--------+
| 1  | 100    |
+----+--------+
Output: 
+---------------------+
| SecondHighestSalary |
+---------------------+
| null                |
+---------------------+

Solutions

Solution 1: Use Sub Query and LIMIT

Solution 2: Use MAX() function

Solution 3: Use IFNULL() and window function

SQL

# Write your MySQL query statement below
SELECT
    (
        SELECT DISTINCT salary
        FROM Employee
        ORDER BY salary DESC
        LIMIT 1, 1
    ) AS SecondHighestSalary;

# Write your MySQL query statement below
SELECT MAX(salary) AS SecondHighestSalary
FROM Employee
WHERE salary < (SELECT MAX(salary) FROM Employee);

# Write your MySQL query statement below
WITH T AS (SELECT salary, DENSE_RANK() OVER (ORDER BY salary DESC) AS rk FROM Employee)
SELECT (SELECT DISTINCT salary FROM T WHERE rk = 2) AS SecondHighestSalary;