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184. Department Highest Salary

Description

Table: Employee

+--------------+---------+
| Column Name  | Type    |
+--------------+---------+
| id           | int     |
| name         | varchar |
| salary       | int     |
| departmentId | int     |
+--------------+---------+
id is the primary key (column with unique values) for this table.
departmentId is a foreign key (reference columns) of the ID from the Department table.
Each row of this table indicates the ID, name, and salary of an employee. It also contains the ID of their department.

 

Table: Department

+-------------+---------+
| Column Name | Type    |
+-------------+---------+
| id          | int     |
| name        | varchar |
+-------------+---------+
id is the primary key (column with unique values) for this table. It is guaranteed that department name is not NULL.
Each row of this table indicates the ID of a department and its name.

 

Write a solution to find employees who have the highest salary in each of the departments.

Return the result table in any order.

The result format is in the following example.

 

Example 1:

Input: 
Employee table:
+----+-------+--------+--------------+
| id | name  | salary | departmentId |
+----+-------+--------+--------------+
| 1  | Joe   | 70000  | 1            |
| 2  | Jim   | 90000  | 1            |
| 3  | Henry | 80000  | 2            |
| 4  | Sam   | 60000  | 2            |
| 5  | Max   | 90000  | 1            |
+----+-------+--------+--------------+
Department table:
+----+-------+
| id | name  |
+----+-------+
| 1  | IT    |
| 2  | Sales |
+----+-------+
Output: 
+------------+----------+--------+
| Department | Employee | Salary |
+------------+----------+--------+
| IT         | Jim      | 90000  |
| Sales      | Henry    | 80000  |
| IT         | Max      | 90000  |
+------------+----------+--------+
Explanation: Max and Jim both have the highest salary in the IT department and Henry has the highest salary in the Sales department.

Solutions

Solution 1: Equi-Join + Subquery

We can use an equi-join to join the Employee table and the Department table based on Employee.departmentId = Department.id, and then use a subquery to find the highest salary for each department. Finally, we can use a WHERE clause to filter out the employees with the highest salary in each department.

Solution 2: Equi-Join + Window Function

We can use an equi-join to join the Employee table and the Department table based on Employee.departmentId = Department.id, and then use the window function rank(), which assigns a rank to each employee in each department based on their salary. Finally, we can select the rows with a rank of $1$ for each department.

  • # Write your MySQL query statement below
    
    SELECT
        Department.name AS 'Department',
        Employee.name AS 'Employee',
        Employee.Salary
    FROM
        Employee
    JOIN -- default is inner join
        Department
    ON Employee.DepartmentId = Department.Id
    WHERE
        (Employee.DepartmentId , Employee.Salary) IN -- so that if tie, both will appear in result
        (
            SELECT
                DepartmentId, MAX(Salary)
            FROM
                Employee
            GROUP BY DepartmentId
        )
    ;
    
    

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