Need records after 1 to 8 employees

Question

I need a query that shows the records of 5 employees whose salary less than after
Having the salary in descending order from 1 to 8 employees.
As for example:
select EMPNO ,sal from emp order by sal desc ;
EMPNO      SAL
7839           5000
7788           3000
7902           3000
7566           2975
7698           2850
7782           2450
7499           1600
7844           1500
7934           1300
7521           1250
7654           1250
7876           1100
7900 950
7369 800
Now i want to see the only 5(five) records with salary after 1 to 8 EMPNO.

Answer 1

I am not sure if this is what you want, but give it a try.
SELECT employee_id, salary
  FROM (SELECT employee_id, salary,
               ROW_NUMBER () OVER (ORDER BY salary DESC) rn
          FROM employees)
WHERE rn > 8 AND rn < 14