Second Youngest Age in SQL | Dataford Interview Questions

LatentView Analytics wants to validate age-based workforce reporting for its active analysts. Write a PostgreSQL query to find the second-youngest distinct age among employees whose current workforce status is Active.

Requirements

Join employees with employee_statuses using employee_id.
Exclude employees without an active status and ignore NULL ages.
Rank distinct ages from youngest to oldest and return the age with rank 2.
Return one column named second_youngest_age.

Schema

employees

Column	Type	Description
employee_idPK	INT	Unique employee identifier
employee_name	VARCHAR(100)	Employee name
age	INT	Employee age

employee_statuses

Column	Type	Description
status_idPK	INT	Unique status record identifier
employee_id	INT	References employees.employee_id
current_status	VARCHAR(20)	Current workforce status

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