Find Nth highest salary from table

In interview you can faced question like to give solution(query) for find Nth highest salary from given employee table.

TO find out 3rd highest salary from table

--Find 3rd highest salary
SELECT TOP 1 salary
FROM (
SELECT DISTINCT TOP 3 salary
FROM tblSalary
ORDER BY salary DESC) S
ORDER BY salary

General form to find to Nth highest salary from table

--Find Nth highest salary
SELECT TOP 1 salary FROM (
SELECT DISTINCT TOP N salary FROM tblSalary ORDER BY salary DESC) S
ORDER BY salary

There are many solution to solve to this but above solution is easiest.
Take other possible solution,

SELECT MIN(salary) FROM tblSalary WHERE salary IN
(SELECT DISTINCT TOP 3 salary FROM tblSalary ORDER BY salary DESC)

--or--

SELECT MIN(salary) FROM
(SELECT DISTINCT TOP 3 salary FROM tblSalary ORDER BY salary DESC) S