Second Highest Salary in MYSQL

employees table:

idnamesalary
1mahendra1000
2shivam500
3deepak300
4rahul2000

Query-1:

SELECT MAX(salary) 
FROM employees
WHERE salary < (SELECT MAX(salary) FROM employees);

Query-2:

SELECT salary 
FROM employees
ORDER BY salary DESC
LIMIT 1, 1;

Output:

1000