Problem

Write a SQL query to get the second highest salary from the Employee table.

+----+--------+
| Id | Salary |
+----+--------+
| 1  | 100    |
| 2  | 200    |
| 3  | 300    |
+----+--------+

For example, given the above Employee table, the query should return 200 as the second highest salary. If there is no second highest salary, then the query should return null.

+---------------------+
| SecondHighestSalary |
+---------------------+
| 200                 |
+---------------------+

即找到第二大的元素。沒有返回null。

MySQL

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

 

分析

通過LIMIT OFFSET找到第二個元素。DISTINCT是為了排除兩個最大值的情況。巢狀是為了解返回null的情況。另一種辦法是使用IFNULL函式。