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

The below listed query will list highest salary in each department.

select deptname, max(salary) from department, employee where 
  department.deptno=employee.deptno group by deptname;

I executed this query successfully on Oracle database.