leetcode176---Second Highest Salary

一、问题描述：
Write a SQL query to get the second highest salary from the Employee table.

+----+--------+
| Id | Salary |
+----+--------+
| 1  | 100    |
| 2  | 200    |
| 3  | 300    |
+----+--------+

For example, given the above Employee table, the second highest salary is 200. If there is no second highest salary, then the query should return null.

二、问题求解

（1）方法一

#所谓的“第二高”是指去重后的仅次于最高值的分数
#因此只需借助于MAX关键词即可
select MAX(Salary)
from Employee
where Salary < (select MAX(Salary) from Employee);

（2）方法二

#distinct,order by 和limit 组合使用
select IFNULL(
    (select  distinct Salary as SecondHighSalary 
     from Employee order by Salary desc 
     limit 1, 1),
    NULL
); 

三、DISTINCT语句去重复记录

在MySQL查询中，可能会包含重复值。这并不成问题，不过，有时您也许希望仅仅列出不同（distinct）的值。

关键词 DISTINCT 用于返回唯一不同的值，就是去重。用法：

SELECT DISTINCT * FROM tableName

DISTINCT 这个关键字来过滤掉多余的重复记录只保留一条。