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Second Highest Salary at NovaTech

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Problem

NovaTech wants a quick salary check from its employee records. Write a SQL query to return the second highest distinct salary from the employees table.

Requirements

  1. Return exactly one column named second_highest_salary
  2. Treat duplicate salaries as the same salary value
  3. If a second highest salary does not exist, return NULL

Schema

employees
ColumnTypeDescription
employee_idPKINTUnique employee identifier
employee_nameVARCHAR(100)Employee full name
departmentVARCHAR(50)Employee department
salaryINTEmployee salary amount
Tablesemployees
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