For particular example of employee :
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solution1:
How to get 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, nth topmost salary from an Employee table
The following solution is for getting 6th highest salary from Employee table ,
SELECT TOP 1 salary
FROM (
SELECT DISTINCT TOP 6 salary
FROM employee
ORDER BY salary DESC) a
ORDER BY salary
You can change and use it for getting nth highest salary from Employee table as follows
SELECT TOP 1 salary
FROM (
SELECT DISTINCT TOP n salary
FROM employee
ORDER BY salary DESC) a
ORDER BY salary
where n > 1 (n is always greater than one)
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solution2
SELECT MIN(Sal) FROM TableName
WHERE Sal IN
(SELECT TOP 4 Sal FROM TableName ORDER BY Sal DESC)
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