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To find Nth max salary

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varalaruu
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Posted - 2008-11-19 : 11:34:47

write the query of to find the n th maximum salary?

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2008-11-19 : 11:41:40

SELECT Salary
FROM
(SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY Salary) AS Seq,Salary
FROM Table)t
WHERE t.Seq=@N

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2008-11-19 : 12:23:45

also see this

http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/madhivanan/archive/2007/08/27/find-nth-maximum-value.aspx

sunsanvin
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

1274 Posts

Posted - 2008-11-20 : 01:17:58

Fairly Interview Question

Arnav
Even you learn 1%, Learn it with 100% confidence.

karthickbabu
Posting Yak Master

151 Posts

Posted - 2008-11-20 : 05:13:22

Give Nth position instead of 'N'

SELECT * FROM TableName T1 WHERE (N-1) =
(SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(T2.Salary)) FROM TableName T2 WHERE T2.Salary > T1.Salary)

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Transact Charlie
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3451 Posts

Posted - 2008-11-20 : 05:19:39

ROW_NUMBER() is probably the most efficient way as Visakh suggested.

Charlie
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