184. 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.

+----+-------+--------+--------------+
| Id | Name  | Salary | DepartmentId |
+----+-------+--------+--------------+
| 1  | Joe   | 70000  | 1            |
| 2  | Henry | 80000  | 2            |
| 3  | Sam   | 60000  | 2            |
| 4  | Max   | 90000  | 1            |
+----+-------+--------+--------------+

The Department table holds all departments of the company.

+----+----------+
| Id | Name     |
+----+----------+
| 1  | IT       |
| 2  | Sales    |
+----+----------+

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.

+------------+----------+--------+
| Department | Employee | Salary |
+------------+----------+--------+
| IT         | Max      | 90000  |
| Sales      | Henry    | 80000  |
+------------+----------+--------+

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MySQL:

# Write your MySQL query statement below

select 
    dd.Department   as Department,
    ee.Name         as Employee,
    dd.Salary       as Salary
from
    Employee ee,
    (
    select 
        max(e.DepartmentId)     as DepartmentId,
        d.Name                  as Department,
        max(e.Salary)           as Salary
    from
        Employee e,
        Department d
    where
        e.DepartmentId = d.Id
    group by
        d.Name
    ) dd
where
    ee.Salary = dd.Salary
    and ee.DepartmentId = dd.DepartmentId
;