查找当前薪水排名第二多的员工某些信息（不使用order by）

查找当前薪水(to_date=‘9999-01-01’)排名第二多的员工编号emp_no、薪水salary、last_name以及first_name，你可以不使用order by完成吗
CREATE TABLE employees (
emp_no int(11) NOT NULL,
birth_date date NOT NULL,
first_name varchar(14) NOT NULL,
last_name varchar(16) NOT NULL,
gender char(1) NOT NULL,
hire_date date NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (emp_no));
CREATE TABLE salaries (
emp_no int(11) NOT NULL,
salary int(11) NOT NULL,
from_date date NOT NULL,
to_date date NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (emp_no,from_date));

select e.emp_no,s.salary,e.last_name,e.first_name
from
employees e
join 
salaries s on e.emp_no=s.emp_no 
and  s.to_date='9999-01-01'
and s.salary = 
(
     select s1.salary
     from 
     salaries s1
     join
     salaries s2 on s1.salary<=s2.salary 
     and s1.to_date='9999-01-01' and s2.to_date='9999-01-01'
     group by s1.salary
     having count( s2.salary)=2
 );