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By: SQL SERVER - Find Nth Highest Salary of Employee - Query to Retrieve the Nth Maximum value Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

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By: vidyullatha

vidyullatha — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:32:18 +0000

hi ,
this is vidyullatha. i have a dought in sql how to get the nth highest salary from emp table.can i get using sql plz tell me the answer.

By: Faith

Faith — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:39:51 +0000

hi Vishwanath,

can you try this, where i’m trying to find the third highest salary

select top 1 *
from (select top 3 *
from emp_table
order by salary desc)
order by salary

By: Vishwanath

Vishwanath — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:58:56 +0000

Hi nagesh,

Thank you for trying this. Can u pls help me out if their is any other query, as the result is not as expected.

This is not what i need.

Suppose i have a table with following data

EmpNo Empname sal

1 X 100

2 y 300

3 a 50

4 b 200

5 c 500

6 d 250

Here i want 3rd record i.e 3 a 50, using the sal column.

If i use ur query i will get 4 b 200 or if the order is changed u may get 6 d 250.
In which the result was not as i expected.
I just want the nth record it may or may not have duplicates

By: Nagesh

Nagesh — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:16:22 +0000

Hi alll,

use this query for any record you want to find in the table.

SELECT TOP A salary FROM (SELECT TOP (n) salary FROM employee ORDER BY salary DESC)
AS E ORDER BY salary ASC

top(n) give the total no of records

a desire top value

another way

select t.* from (select row_number() over(order by salary) as row_id, salary from sal)
t where t.row_id = 24

give the which nth record you want

By: Vishwanath

Vishwanath — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:17:38 +0000

Hi all,
i need to write a Query to find the nth record from a table. Please can any help me out?

By: Vishwanath

Vishwanath — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:59:50 +0000

How to get nth record(its not highest or lowest) from a table. I am working on SQL SERVER 2005.

By: Madhivanan

Madhivanan — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:32:10 +0000

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

By: smita

smita — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:23:36 +0000

Hi! Pinal,

What is Embedded SQL Query?

By: SQL SERVER - 2005 - Find Nth Highest Record from Database Table - Using Ranking Function ROW_NUMBER Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:31:07 +0000

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By: Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]

Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:27:50 +0000

If you are using SQL Server 2005, you are better off using the ranking function ROW_NUMBER, and then querying for the appropriate value:

select
t.*
from
(
select
e1.*,
row_number() over (order by e1.Rate desc) as _Rank
from
HumanResources.EmployeePayHistory as e1
) as t
where
t._Rank = 3

Replace 3 with whatever rank you want (this will give you the record with the third highest rate).