Just bouncing on 2008/07/secondmax. Another way of getting secondmax would be with an ordered collection. While collection methods like (n), first, last, count are not in SQL, I used PLSQL (within SQL) WITH FUNCTION f (c sys.odcinumberlist, n NUMBER) RETURN number IS BEGIN RETURN c (n); END; SELECT f( CAST( COLLECT( CAST( sal AS NUMBER […]