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

with ctesal as (
 select DepartmentId , Name , Salary, ROW_Number() OVER (partition by DepartmentId 
 order by Salary desc) as RowNum
 from dbo.Employee
 )
 select DepartmentId , Name , Salary , RowNum from ctesal where RowNum  =2;

This is applicable to SQL server. ROW_Number is a inbuilt function in SQL server .It gives count starting from 1 based on partition by and order by clause. At the end, We can write where condition based on our requirements.

Answer 2

select empno 
from EMP e 
where salary=(select max(sal) 
              from EMP w 
              where  groupby w.deptno having e.deptno=w.deptno)

I hope it will work...

Answer 3

SELECT D.DeptID, E.EmpName, E.Salary
FROM Employee E
INNER JOIN Department D ON D.DeptId = E.DeptId
WHERE E.Salary IN (SELECT MAX(Salary) FROM Employee);

Answer 4

Use correlated subquery:

SELECT DeptID, EmpName, Salary
FROM EmpDetails a
WHERE Salary = (SELECT MAX(Salary) 
                FROM EmpDetails b
                WHERE a.DeptID = b.DeptID)

Answer 5

ermn, something like:

select 
   d.DeptID,
   max(e.Salary)
from
   department d
   inner join employees e on d.DeptID = e.DeptID
group by
  d.DeptID

Answer 6

Here is a way to get maximum values and names on any version of SQL.

Test Data:

CREATE TABLE EmpDetails(DeptID VARCHAR(10), EmpName VARCHAR(10), Salary DECIMAL(8,2))
INSERT INTO EmpDetails VALUES('Engg','Sam',1000)
INSERT INTO EmpDetails VALUES('Engg','Smith',2000)
INSERT INTO EmpDetails VALUES('HR','Denis',1500)
INSERT INTO EmpDetails VALUES('HR','Danny',3000)
INSERT INTO EmpDetails VALUES('IT','David',2000)
INSERT INTO EmpDetails VALUES('IT','John',3000)

Example:

SELECT ed.DeptID
      ,ed.EmpName
      ,ed.Salary
FROM (SELECT DeptID, MAX(Salary) MaxSal
      FROM EmpDetails
      GROUP BY DeptID)AS empmaxsal
INNER JOIN EmpDetails ed
  ON empmaxsal.DeptID = ed.DeptID
 AND empmaxsal.MaxSal = ed.Salary

Not the most elegant, but it works.