how to get second highest salary department wise without using analytical functions? - sql

Question

Suppose we have 3 employees in each department.we have total 3 departments . Below is the sample source table
Emp deptno salary
A 10 1000
B 10 2000
C 10 3000
D 20 7000
E 20 9000
F 20 8000
G 30 17000
H 30 15000
I 30 30000
Output
B 10 2000
F 20 8000
G 30 17000
With using analytic function dense_rank we can achive the second highest salary dept wise.
Can we achieve this without using ANY analytic function ???
Is Max() is also analytic function ??

Answer 1

It is a pain, but you can do it. The following query gets the second highest salary:
select t.deptno, max(t.salary) as maxs
from table t
where t.salary < (select max(salary)
from table t2
where t2.deptno = t.deptno
)
group by t.deptno;
You can then use this to get the employee:
select t.*
from table t join
(select t.deptno, max(t.salary) as maxs
from table t
where t.salary < (select max(salary)
from table t2
where t2.deptno = t.deptno
)
group by t.deptno
) tt
on t.deptno = tt.deptno and t.salary = tt.maxs;

Answer 2

Create table and insert dummy data
CREATE TABLE #Employee
(
Id Int,
Name NVARCHAR(10),
Sal int,
deptId int
)
INSERT INTO #Employee VALUES
(1, 'Ashish',1000,1),
(2,'Gayle',3000,1),
(3, 'Salman',2000,2),
(4,'Prem',44000,2)
Query to get result
;WITH cteRowNum AS (
SELECT *,
DENSE_RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY deptId ORDER BY Sal DESC) AS RowNum
FROM #Employee
)
SELECT *
FROM cteRowNum
WHERE RowNum = 2;

Answer 3

This will give you 2nd highest salary in each department:
SELECT a.Emp, a.deptno, a.salary
FROM Emp a
WHERE 1 = (SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT salary)
FROM Emp b
WHERE b.salary > a.salary AND a.deptno = b.deptno)
group by a.deptno

Answer 4

Solution using Correlated Subquery:
SELECT * FROM emp e1 WHERE 2 = (SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT sal)
FROM emp e2
WHERE e1.sal <= e2.sal
AND e1.deptno = e2.deptno
);

Answer 5

Quite straightforward and declarative, but slow
select
t1.*
from
#tmp t1
inner join #tmp h1 on h1.dept = t1.dept and h1.emp <> t1.emp
left outer join #tmp h2 on h2.dept = h1.dept and h2.salary > h1.salary
left outer join #tmp t2 on t1.dept = t2.dept and t2.salary > t1.salary and t2.emp <> h1.emp
where
t2.emp is null and h2.emp is null

Answer 6

You can find 2nd highest salary something like this:
select max(a.Salary),a.Deptno from Employee a join (select MAX(salary) salary
from Employee group by Deptno) b on a.Salary < b.salary group by a.Deptno
And no MAX() is not an analytic function.
Reference

Answer 7

On MySQL this how you can get second highest salary, given table name is salaries:
By Nested Queries: (where you can change offset 0/1/2 for first, second and third place respectively)
select
*
from
salaries as t1
where
t1.salary = (select
salary
from
salaries
where
salaries.deptno = t1.deptno ORDER by salary desc limit 1 offset 1);
or might be by creating rank: (where you can change rank= 1/2/3 for first, second and third place respectively)
SET #prev_value = NULL;
SET #rank_count = 0;
select * from
(SELECT
s.*,
CASE
WHEN #prev_value = deptno THEN #rank_count := #rank_count + 1
WHEN #prev_value := deptno THEN #rank_count := 1
ELSE #rank_count := 1
END as rank
FROM salaries s
ORDER BY deptno, salary desc) as t
having t.rank = 2;

Answer 8

SQL Query:
select TOP 2 max(salary),Emp from EMployee where deptno='your_detpno'

Answer 9

Very simple logic.
Please try:
SELECT dept as dd, ( SELECT ee.salary FROM `employees` as ee WHERE ee.dept=dd
ORDER BY ee.salary DESC LIMIT 1,1 ) as sndHigh
FROM `employees`
WHERE 1
GROUP BY dept

Answer 10

select min(salary),deptno from
(SELECT distinct top 2 salary,deptno from table ORDER BY salary DESC)
as a
group by deptno

Answer 11

CREATE TABLE Employee
([Name] varchar(1), [Dept] varchar(1), [Salary] int)
;
INSERT INTO Employee
([Name], [Dept], [Salary])
VALUES
('a', 'M', 20),
('b', 'M', 25),
('c', 'M', 30),
('d', 'C', 44),
('e', 'C', 45),
('f', 'C', 46),
('g', 'H', 20)