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Medium#176
LeetCode Problem

Second Highest Salary

Problem Statement

Tables: Employee(id INT, salary INT). Employee.id is the unique key. Return the second-highest distinct salary as SecondHighestSalary. Return null when fewer than two distinct salaries exist. Repeated salary values occupy one rank, not multiple positions.

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Examples

# Example 1

Input
Employee table: +----+--------+ | id | salary | +----+--------+ | 1  | 100    | | 2  | 200    | | 3  | 300    | +----+--------+
Output
+---------------------+ | SecondHighestSalary | +---------------------+ | 200                 | +---------------------+

# Example 2

Input
Employee table: +----+--------+ | id | salary | +----+--------+ | 1  | 100    | +----+--------+
Output
+---------------------+ | SecondHighestSalary | +---------------------+ | null                | +---------------------+

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