Highest Salary in each department

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I have a table EmpDetails:

DeptID      EmpName   Salary
Engg        Sam       1000
Engg        Smith     2000
HR          Denis     1500
HR          Danny     3000
IT          David     2000
IT          John      3000

I want to make a query that find the highest salary for each department.

Sep 18, 2022 in Database by Kithuzzz
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SELECT DeptID, MAX(Salary) FROM EmpDetails GROUP BY DeptID

The accepted response to the preceding question does not apply to the following circumstance. Let's imagine we need to identify the workers who earn the most money in each department for the table below.

DeptID
EmpName
Salary
Engg
Sam
1000
Engg
Smith
2000
Engg
Tom
2000
HR
Denis
1500
HR
Danny
3000
IT
David
2000
IT
John
3000

Take note that both Smith and Tom work in the engineering department and earn the highest wage there is. Because MAX() only provides a single number, the query "SELECT DeptID, MAX(Salary) FROM EmpDetails GROUP BY DeptID" will fail. The following query is valid.

SELECT DeptID, EmpName, Salary FROM EmpDetails WHERE (DeptID,Salary) IN (SELECT DeptID, MAX(Salary) FROM EmpDetails GROUP BY DeptID)

Output will be

DeptID
EmpName
Salary
Engg
Smith
2000
Engg
Tom
2000
HR
Danny
3000
IT
John
3000
answered Sep 19, 2022 by narikkadan
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