LeetCode笔记:176. Second Highest Salary

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                 |
+---------------------+

思考:

这里需要注意的一个条件是,当查询输出无结果时,需要返回null
因此,将查询结果倒序DESC排序后使用limit 1,1进行筛选的方法不可行,因为limit查询无结果时,返回为空。
所以其中一种办法是使用max(expr)函数,当无结果时,会返回null

SELECT 
    max(Salary) AS SecondHighestSalary
FROM
    Employee
WHERE 
    Salary < (
        SELECT
            max(Salary) AS SecondHighestSalary
        FROM
            EMPLOYEE)

拓展:

比较聚合函数如max,min对于空数据集返回NULL,统计聚合函数如count,sum通常返回0。

——MYSQL 什么时候返回空,什么时候返回NULL,为什么这两条语句返回结果不一样? - 回答作者: Ivony https://zhihu.com/question/40540817/answer/87069604

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