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Second-Highest Subscriber Payment
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Second-Highest Subscriber Payment

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Write a query to find the second-highest subscriber payment from a billing table.

Return the second-highest distinct non-null payment amount. If fewer than two distinct non-null payment amounts exist, the result should be NULL.

Output

  1. One row with the column second_highest_payment
  2. Return the distinct second-highest payment amount, excluding NULL values
  3. Return exactly one scalar result row

Schema

billing
ColumnTypeDescription
billing_idPKINTUnique billing record identifier
subscriber_idVARCHAR(20)Subscriber identifier
payment_amountDECIMAL(10,2)Payment amount recorded for the billing entry
Tablesbilling
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