Oracle – PL- SQL – Get the Second highest/ largest Value from column

How to get the Second highest/ largest Value from the column ? Example: See the table values in the snapshot. As per requirement we need to get second highest/ largest salary form the column sal which is 3000 as per column values. Solution: Script: select ename,sal from ( select ename, sal, row_number()over(order by sal desc) rn from emp ) x where rn = 2;

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