Question

I have a table student with the fields id, name and mark.
I need to get the student name(s) having second largest mark.

I tried:

SELECT DISTINCT name FROM stud ORDER BY mark DESC LIMIT 2,1

but that returns only one student name having second second largest mark.

I need to list all student names if many of them having second largest mark.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

SELECT DISTINCT
  name, mark
FROM
  stud 
WHERE
  mark = (SELECT MAX(mark) FROM stud WHERE mark < (SELECT MAX(mark) FROM stud))
ORDER BY
  name