select top 1 salary from(select top 6   salary from employee
order by salary desc)asc

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Reynald <[email protected]> wrote:

> Could anyone please explain me how this query selects the employee
> with nth highest salary?
>
> select last_name, salary from employees e1
> where &n = (select count(distinct(salary)) from employees e2
> where e2.salary >= e1.salary);
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