185. Department Top Three Salaries

https://leetcode.com/problems/department-top-three-salaries/description/

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  |
+------------+----------+--------+

# Write your MySQL query statement below
SELECT b.Name Department ,
       a.Name  Employee,
  a.Salary
FROM (
       SELECT if (@pre_departmentId = DepartmentId, if(@pre_salary = Salary , @rank, @rank := @rank + 1 ) , @rank := 1) as rank,
         Id, Name, Salary,
              @pre_departmentId := DepartmentId as DepartmentId,
         @pre_salary := Salary
       from (SELECT @pre_departmentId := NULL, @rank := 0, @pre_salary := NULL) a,
         Employee
       ORDER BY DepartmentId, Salary DESC
     )a
  INNER JOIN Department  b on a.DepartmentId = b.id
where a.rank <= 3