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Second Highest Salary

Problem Statement

Table: Employee

Column NameType
idint
salaryint
id is the primary key column for this table.
Each row of this table contains information about the salary of an employee.

Write an SQL query to report the second highest salary from the Employee table. If there is no second highest salary, the query should report null.

The query result format is in the following example.

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Example 1:

Input:
Employee table:
idsalary
1100
2200
3300
Output:
SecondHighestSalary
200

Example 2:

Input:
Employee table:
idsalary
1100
Output:
SecondHighestSalary
null

Example 2:

Input: nums = [2,5,6,0,0,1,2], target = 3
Output: false

Code

MySQL
# Write your MySQL query statement below
SELECT MAX(SALARY) AS SecondHighestSalary FROM EMPLOYEE WHERE SALARY <>(SELECT MAX(SALARY) FROM EMPLOYEE);