Comments on: SQL Puzzle: SQL Advance Query – Find second highest salary for each department https://www.dbrnd.com/2017/10/sql-puzzle-sql-advance-query-find-second-highest-salary-for-each-department/ BIGData | NoSQL | MSSQL | MySQL | PostgreSQL Mon, 06 Jan 2020 07:37:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Tapan Patel https://www.dbrnd.com/2017/10/sql-puzzle-sql-advance-query-find-second-highest-salary-for-each-department/#comment-7993 Mon, 06 Jan 2020 07:37:04 +0000 https://www.dbrnd.com/?p=5769#comment-7993 Hi,

If don’t want to used the CTE then we will write a query live this.

select * from
(select *, rank() over(partition by DeptID order by EmpSalary desc) as rnk from Employee) as tbl1
where tbl1.rnk=2

it will returns same ans .

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