Find Nth Highest Salary in SQL | 5 Different Ways | Most Important SQL Interview Question

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Struggling with SQL interview questions? Learn how to solve the popular SQL problem: 'Find the 4th lowest salary from the employee table.' In this video, we break down the step-by-step process using SQL queries that you can apply in interviews or on the job.

In this video we will see how we can find the Nth (1st, 2nd , 3rd, ... ,nth) Highest salary in SQL . Here we will discuss five different ways to solve this query .

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What you'll learn:

Writing SQL queries for ranking and filtering
Using LIMIT, OFFSET, and subqueries for solutions
Optimizing queries for better performance
Common mistakes to avoid in salary-based queries
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you can find the SQL script to create and load data to tables

/*****-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------******/
CREATE TABLE employees (
employee_id INT IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY,
first_name VARCHAR (20) DEFAULT NULL,
last_name VARCHAR (25) NOT NULL,
email VARCHAR (100) NOT NULL,
phone_number VARCHAR (20) DEFAULT NULL,
hire_date DATE NOT NULL,
job_id INT NOT NULL,
salary DECIMAL (8, 2) NOT NULL,
manager_id INT DEFAULT NULL,
department_id INT DEFAULT NULL
);
SET IDENTITY_INSERT employees ON;
INSERT INTO INSERT INTO employees(employee_id,first_name,last_name,email,phone_number,hire_date,job_id,salary,manager_id,department_id) VALUES (100,'Steven','King','[email protected]','515.123.4567','1987-06-17',4,24000.00,NULL,9);
INSERT INTO employees(employee_id,first_name,last_name,email,phone_number,hire_date,job_id,salary,manager_id,department_id) VALUES (101,'Neena','Kochhar','[email protected]','515.123.4568','1989-09-21',5,17000.00,100,9);
INSERT INTO employees(employee_id,first_name,last_name,email,phone_number,hire_date,job_id,salary,manager_id,department_id) VALUES (102,'Lex','De Haan','lex.de [email protected]','515.123.4569','1993-01-13',5,17000.00,100,9);
INSERT INTO employees(employee_id,first_name,last_name,email,phone_number,hire_date,job_id,salary,manager_id,department_id) VALUES (103,'Alexander','Hunold','[email protected]','590.423.4567','1990-01-03',9,9000.00,102,6);
INSERT INTO employees(employee_id,first_name,last_name,email,phone_number,hire_date,job_id,salary,manager_id,department_id) VALUES (104,'Bruce','Ernst','[email protected]','590.423.4568','1991-05-21',9,6000.00,103,6);
INSERT INTO employees(employee_id,first_name,last_name,email,phone_number,hire_date,job_id,salary,manager_id,department_id) VALUES (106,'Valli','Pataballa','[email protected]','590.423.4560','1998-02-05',9,4800.00,103,6);
INSERT INTO employees(employee_id,first_name,last_name,email,phone_number,hire_date,job_id,salary,manager_id,department_id) VALUES (107,'Diana','Lorentz','[email protected]','590.423.5567','1999-02-07',9,4200.00,103,6);
INSERT INTO employees(employee_id,first_name,last_name,email,phone_number,hire_date,job_id,salary,manager_id,department_id) VALUES (108,'Nancy','Greenberg','[email protected]','515.124.4569','1994-08-17',7,12000.00,101,10);
INSERT INTO employees(employee_id,first_name,last_name,email,phone_number,hire_date,job_id,salary,manager_id,department_id) VALUES (109,'Daniel','Faviet','[email protected]','515.124.4169','1994-08-16',6,9000.00,108,10);
INSERT INTO employees(employee_id,first_name,last_name,email,phone_number,hire_date,job_id,salary,manager_id,department_id) VALUES (110,'John','Chen','[email protected]','515.124.4269','1997-09-28',6,8200.00,108,10);
SET IDENTITY_INSERT employees OFF;
/*****-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------******/

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