Question

Write a SQL query to get the \(n^{th}\) highest salary from the Employee table.

+----+--------+
| Id | Salary |
+----+--------+
| 1  | 100    |
| 2  | 200    |
| 3  | 300    |
+----+--------+

For example, given the above Employee table, the nth highest salary where n = 2 is 200. If there is no nth highest salary, then the query should return null.

+------------------------+
| getNthHighestSalary(2) |
+------------------------+
| 200                    |
+------------------------+

Solution

DISTINCT clause considers null as a unique value.

CREATE FUNCTION getNthHighestSalary(N INT) RETURNS INT
BEGIN
SET N = N - 1;
  RETURN (
      # Write your MySQL query statement below.
      select distinct Salary from Employee order by Salary desc limit 1 offset N
  );
END