LeetCode Database #176 Second Highest Salary

LeetCode Database #176 Second Highest Salary

个人比较喜欢小写SQL代码，反正可以写完再格式化

题目内容

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 query should return 200 as the second highest salary. If there is no second highest salary, then the query should return null.

+---------------------+
| SecondHighestSalary |
+---------------------+
| 200                 |
+---------------------+

解题

选出第二大的薪水，肯定要做的是排序order by Salary desc，再使用limit 1 offset 1来选出第二大的（这个不看solution我还真不知道，数据库还是学的太少）

select distinct Salary as SecondHighestSalary
from Employee
order by Salary desc
limit 1 offset 1;

但是直接这样提交是错误的，因为题目要求当没有结果时返回null，而空集并不等于null，参考solution，有两种方法。

第一种是使用ifnull(expr1, expr2)函数，如果expr1不为null返回expr1，否则返回expr2。所以可以写作

select ifnull((
    select distinct Salary
    from Employee
    order by Salary desc
    limit 1 offset 1), 
    null) as SecondHighestSalary;

第二种比较骚，select一个空集的结果为null。写作

select (
    select distinct Salary
    from Employee
    order by Salary desc
    limit 1 offset 1) as SecondHighestSalary;