Top 5 salary amount

Question

Following are my sql table

 

create table sales_employee

(

name varchar(50),

territory varchar(50),

sales_amount int

)

 

And Follwing are the records

 

name territory sales_amount

A          X         100

B          X          200

C          X          200

D          X          300

E          X          400

F          Y          300

G          Y          300

H          Y          500

I            Y          600

J           Z             200

K          Z          700

 

 

 

So i need to find top 5 salary amount from above records but the condition is without using TOP keyword..

 

How i get that output without using TOP?