lowest and highest salaries display

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i try to get top 5 salary and second highest salary from employees table but it shows me also lowest salaries

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this is the queries which i try

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SELECT MAX(Salary) FROM Employees
WHERE Salary NOT IN (SELECT MAX(Salary) FROM Employees )

select top 5 salary from Employees;

Posted 24-Jan-16 16:48pm

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Updated 24-Jan-16 17:00pm

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deepankarbhatnagar · Answer 1 · 2016-01-24T20:44:00

Please try this:

To get nth highest salary:

SQL

SELECT TOP 1 salary
FROM (
SELECT DISTINCT TOP n salary
FROM employees
ORDER BY salary DESC) a
ORDER BY salary

in above, replace n to 2 & you will get 2nd highest salary as you required.

And for top 5 salary list please try :

SQL

SELECT DISTINCT TOP 5 salary
FROM employees
ORDER BY salary DESC

For more help please see the link below & customize the query as per your need:

SQL SERVER – Find Nth Highest Salary of Employee – Query to Retrieve the Nth Maximum value – Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave[^]

*dan!sh* · Answer 2 · 2016-01-24T17:00:00

Solution 1

I am not really sure if I understand what you want here but I will try and attempt. Are you looking for top 5 salaries from the table? If yes, doesn't this fit?

SQL

select distinct top 5 salary from employees order by salary desc

Posted 24-Jan-16 17:00pm

dan!sh

Updated 24-Jan-16 17:25pm

v2

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super_user 24-Jan-16 23:08pm

yes i am looking for top 5 salaries .. but when i do this this shows me also lowest salaries like 2500 which is lowest salary and i want top 5 highest salaries

dan!sh 24-Jan-16 23:17pm

How many distinct salary values do you have in table?

super_user 24-Jan-16 23:12pm

???