Department Highest Salary

Department Highest Salary

The Employee table holds all employees. Every employee has an Id, a salary, and there is also a column for the department Id.

Example

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| Id | Name | Salary | DepartmentId |
±—±------±-------±-------------+
| 1 | Joe | 70000 | 1 |
| 2 | Jim | 90000 | 1 |
| 3 | Henry | 80000 | 2 |
| 4 | Sam | 60000 | 2 |
| 5 | Max | 90000 | 1 |
±—±------±-------±-------------+
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, your SQL query should return the following rows (order of rows does not matter).
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| Department | Employee | Salary |
±-----------±---------±-------+
| IT | Max | 90000 |
| IT | Jim | 90000 |
| Sales | Henry | 80000 |
±-----------±---------±-------+

Solution

# Write your MySQL query statement below
  SELECT D.Name Department, E.Name Employee, E.Salary Salary FROM
Employee E
    JOIN Department D
      ON E.DepartmentId=D.Id
   WHERE Salary IN
 (SELECT MAX(Salary) FROM Employee E2 WHERE E.DepartmentId=E2.DepartmentId)