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Second Highest Trader Salary

EasySQL · PostgreSQL00:00
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Problem

You are given a table of employee salaries from a trading analytics environment. Write a SQL query to return the second highest distinct salary from the table. If the highest salary appears multiple times, it should still count only once. If there is no second distinct salary, the query should return no rows.

Schema

employee_salaries
ColumnTypeDescription
employee_idPKINTUnique employee identifier
employee_nameVARCHAR(100)Employee full name
salaryINTEmployee salary amount
Tablesemployee_salaries
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