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Level 5: Interview classics Exercise 50 of 60 Pro

Third highest salary

An SQL exercise from Querydrill. Solve it with a SQL editor in your browser, checked on the rows it returns and again on changed data, and it is checked the moment you submit.

The task

Return the third highest distinct salary as a single value.

What this exercise teaches

Nth highest is asked constantly. Know both the OFFSET and the DENSE_RANK version.

A hint if you get stuck

Distinct salaries, sorted high to low, skip two, take one. DENSE_RANK works too.

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