177. Nth Highest Salary | Physics ∩ ML

+-------------+------+
| Column Name | Type |
+-------------+------+
| id          | int  |
| salary      | int  |
+-------------+------+
id is the primary key column for this table.
Each row of this table contains information about the salary of an employee.

Write an SQL query to report the n$^{th}$ highest salary from the Employee table. If there is no n$^{th}$ highest salary, the query should report null.

The query result format is in the following example.

Example 1:

Input: 
Employee table:
+----+--------+
| id | salary |
+----+--------+
| 1  | 100    |
| 2  | 200    |
| 3  | 300    |
+----+--------+
n = 2
Output: 
+------------------------+
| getNthHighestSalary(2) |
+------------------------+
| 200                    |
+------------------------+

Example 2:

Input: 
Employee table:
+----+--------+
| id | salary |
+----+--------+
| 1  | 100    |
+----+--------+
n = 2
Output: 
+------------------------+
| getNthHighestSalary(2) |
+------------------------+
| null                   |
+------------------------+

Solution:

CREATE FUNCTION getNthHighestSalary(N INT) RETURNS INT
BEGIN
SET N = N-1;
  RETURN (
      # Write your MySQL query statement below.
      SELECT (SELECT DISTINCT salary FROM Employee
        ORDER BY salary DESC
        LIMIT N,1) AS SecondHighestSalary
  );
END