Question

I was asked once,

What Could be the MySQL query to fetch the 3rd Maximum Value from a column in DB-table?

Please help me to have multiple way to do this.

Thanks

Answer 1

first way:

for nth highest column

   SELECT column FROM table ORDER BY column DESC LIMIT n-1, 1

Second way : ( eg : for N’th highest salary ) not tested

SELECT id FROM EMPLOYEE E1 WHERE 
 (N - 1) = (SELECT COUNT(distinct(SAL)) 
            FROM EMPLOYEE E2 
            WHERE E2.SAL > E1.SAL )

BASIC lOGIC:

You could sort the column into descending format and then just obtain
the value from the nth row.