LeetCode 177. Nth Highest Salary (sql)

177. Nth Highest Salary

Medium

Write a SQL query to get the nth highest salary from the Employee table.

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

For example, given the above Employee table, the nth highest salary where n = 2 is 200. If there is no nth highest salary, then the query should return null.

+------------------------+
| getNthHighestSalary(2) |
+------------------------+
| 200                    |
+------------------------+

题意

用sql求表中某一列第n大的数

思路

limit b, a等价于limit a offset b：跳过b个数，返回之后的a个数

limit/offset之后不能接表达式，只能接数字或变量，因此要先行将N-1

代码

CREATE FUNCTION getNthHighestSalary(N INT) RETURNS INT
BEGIN
  SET N = N-1;
  RETURN (
      # Write your MySQL query statement below.
      SELECT
        Salary
      FROM
        Employee
      GROUP BY
        Salary
      ORDER BY
        Salary DESC
      LIMIT 1 OFFSET N
  );
END