The Employee
table holds all employees. Every employee has an Id, and there is also a column for the department Id.
+----+-------+--------+--------------+ | Id | Name | Salary | DepartmentId | +----+-------+--------+--------------+ | 1 | Joe | 70000 | 1 | | 2 | Henry | 80000 | 2 | | 3 | Sam | 60000 | 2 | | 4 | Max | 90000 | 1 | | 5 | Janet | 69000 | 1 | | 6 | Randy | 85000 | 1 | +----+-------+--------+--------------+
The Department
table holds all departments of the company.
+----+----------+ | Id | Name | +----+----------+ | 1 | IT | | 2 | Sales | +----+----------+
Write a SQL query to find employees who earn the top three salaries in each of the department. For the above tables, your SQL query should return the following rows.
+------------+----------+--------+ | Department | Employee | Salary | +------------+----------+--------+ | IT | Max | 90000 | | IT | Randy | 85000 | | IT | Joe | 70000 | | Sales | Henry | 80000 | | Sales | Sam | 60000 | +------------+----------+--------+
CREATE TABLE [Employees](
[Id] [int] NOT NULL Primary Key,
[Name] [nvarchar](20) NOT NULL,
[Salary] decimal NOT NULL,
[DepartmentId] [int] NOT NULL
)
insert into [Employees] values
(1,'Joe',70000,1),
(2,'Henry',80000,2),
(3,'Sam',60000,2),
(4,'Max',90000,1),
(5,'Janet',69000,1),
(6,'Randy',85000,1);
CREATE TABLE [Department](
[Id] [int] NOT NULL Primary Key,
[Name] [nvarchar](20) NOT NULL
)
insert into [Department] values
(1,'IT'),
(2,'Sales');
with temp as
(
select e.Id,e.Name Employee,e.Salary,e.DepartmentId,D.Name Department,RN=ROW_NUMBER() over(PARTITION BY d.Id order by e.salary desc)
from [Employees] e inner join [Department] d on e.DepartmentId=d.Id
)
select temp.Department,temp.Employee,temp.Salary from temp where RN<4
order by temp.DepartmentId,temp.RN