How to get Max top 3 sal from emp table

Dear Friend,
I want to fetch max top three salary from our emp table which having different different sal.For example
name sal
john 4000
fred 3000
joseph 4500
xyz 4300
abc 6000

Our result should return only abc,joseph and xyz
So please tell me how to write query for this
Thanks
Imtiaz

select name, sal from
(select name, sal from emp order by sal desc)
where rownum<=3

Thanks for reply but my requirent is like this only top 3 result should not be repeated for example

name sal
john 4000
joseph 4500
abc 4500
xyz 5000
abcl 4200


I want result only xyz,abc9any should not repeat) and abcl

Yes, you want to show just distinct salaries but still with names.
You want to see xyz, abc and abcl with their salaries.
My question is: Why do you want to see abc and not joseph? How to decide which emp show and which not in case of same salaries?

Hi

Query below can be a answer for your question !

Select max(name), sal from emp
group by sal
order by sal desc

I don't know how significant 'name' is going
to be in the output, but use max(), min()
function with name accordingly, if it is
just a matter of finding largest or smallest alphabet?!!

Cheers,
Nandu
:)

Sorry I missed out a bit ! It is infact as follows...

select * from (select max(name), sal from t_emp
group by sal order by sal desc)
where rownum < 4

Cheers
Nandu
:)