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Second Highest Salary Query Duplicate

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Problem

Amagi Cloud maintains employee and salary data for internal workforce reporting. Write a PostgreSQL query to retrieve employees whose current salary is the second highest distinct salary in the company.

Requirements

  1. Consider only salary records where is_current is TRUE.
  2. Use a ranking technique that includes all employees tied at the second highest distinct salary.
  3. Return employee_id, employee_name, and salary, ordered by employee_id.

Schema

employees
ColumnTypeDescription
employee_idPKINTEGERUnique employee identifier
employee_nameVARCHAR(100)Employee's full name
team_nameVARCHAR(100)Amagi team assigned to the employee
employee_salaries
ColumnTypeDescription
salary_idPKINTEGERUnique salary record identifier
employee_idINTEGERReferences employees.employee_id
salaryNUMERIC(12,2)Annual salary amount
is_currentBOOLEANIndicates whether the salary record is current
Tablesemployeesemployee_salaries
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