Question
The Employee table holds all employees. Every employee has an Id, a salary, and there is also a column for the department Id.
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| Id | Name | Salary | DepartmentId |
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| 1 | Joe | 70000 | 1 |
| 2 | Henry | 80000 | 2 |
| 3 | Sam | 60000 | 2 |
| 4 | Max | 90000 | 1 |
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The Department table holds all departments of the company.
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| Id | Name |
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| 1 | IT |
| 2 | Sales |
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Write a SQL query to find employees who have the highest salary in each of the departments. For the above tables, Max has the highest salary in the IT department and Henry has the highest salary in the Sales department.
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| Department | Employee | Salary |
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| IT | Max | 90000 |
| Sales | Henry | 80000 |
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Other′s Solution
# Write your MySQL query statement below
select d2.Name, e2.Name, temp.maxs
from
(select max(e.Salary) as maxs, d.id as did
From Employee e, Department d
where e.DepartmentId=d.Id
group by d.Id) as temp, Employee e2, Department d2
where temp.did=e2.DepartmentId and temp.maxs=e2.Salary
and temp.did=d2.Id