Nth Highest Salary
Description
Write a SQL query to get the nth highest salary from the Employee
table.
+----+--------+ | Id | Salary | +----+--------+ | 1 | 100 | | 2 | 200 | | 3 | 300 | +----+--------+
For example, given the above Employee table, the nth highest salary where n = 2 is 200
. If there is no nth highest salary, then the query should return null
.
+------------------------+ | getNthHighestSalary(2) | +------------------------+ | 200 | +------------------------+
Solution(mysql)
CREATE FUNCTION getNthHighestSalary(N INT) RETURNS INT
BEGIN
DECLARE M INT;
SET M=N-1;
RETURN (
# Write your MySQL query statement below.
select distinct Salary from Employee
order by Salary desc
limit M, 1
);
END