Highest Salary in each department

Question

I have a table EmpDetails:

DeptID      EmpName   Salary
Engg        Sam       1000
Engg        Smith     2000
HR          Denis     1500
HR                  


        

Answer 1

IF you want Department and highest salary, use

SELECT DeptID, MAX(Salary) FROM EmpDetails GROUP BY DeptID

if you want more columns in employee and department, use

select  Department.Name , emp.Name, emp.Salary from Employee emp
inner join (select DeptID, max(salary) [salary] from employee group by DeptID) b
on emp.DeptID = b.DeptID and b.salary = emp.Salary
inner join Department on emp.DeptID = Department.id
order by Department.Name

if use salary in (select max(salary...)) like this, one person have same salary in another department then it will fail.