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.

Answer 2

WITH cteRowNum AS (
    SELECT DeptID, EmpName, Salary,
           ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY DeptID ORDER BY Salary DESC) AS RowNum
        FROM EmpDetails
)
SELECT DeptID, EmpName, Salary,Rownum
    FROM cteRowNum
    WHERE RowNum in(1,2);

Answer 3

SELECT
    DeptID,
    Salary
FROM
    EmpDetails
GROUP BY
    DeptID
ORDER BY
    Salary desc

Answer 4

The below query will display employee name with their respective department name in which that particular employee name is having highest salary.

with T as
(select empname, employee.deptno, salary
from employee
where salary in (select max(salary)
from employee
group by deptno))
select empname, deptname, salary
from T, department
where T.deptno=department.deptno;

I executed the above query successfully on Oracle database.

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

If you want to show other parameters too along with DeptId and Salary like EmpName, EmpId

SELECT 
        EmpID 
      , Name, 
      , Salary
      , DeptId 
   FROM Employee 
   where 
     (DeptId,Salary) 
     in 
     (select DeptId, max(salary) from Employee group by DeptId)