i want to select EmployeeName,Department and Max Salary in each department

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I have a table Employee. I want to select Name,Department and Max salary in each department. Please help.

EmpID	 Name   Department	Salary
 1	         A	   IT	     5000
 2	         B	   IT	     4000
 3	         C	   QA	     4000
 4	         D	   SS	     8000
 5	         E	   IT	     10000
 6	         F	   QA	     4500

Posted 30-Apr-15 1:40am

fawad masood

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Thanks7872 30-Apr-15 8:09am

There is nothing to help you. What have you tried and what is the issue here?

fawad masood 30-Apr-15 8:27am

see the solution below

Richard Deeming 30-Apr-15 9:07am

Your question is tagged with "SQL 2000", "SQL 2008 R2", "SQL 2012" and "SQL 2014". In future, please only select the tag which matches the version you are using.

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Solution 2

Another way is to use ROW_NUMBER() ranking function:

SQL

SELECT EmpID, Name, Department, Salary
FROM (
   SELECT EmpID, Name, Department, Salary, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(Partition By Department ORDER BY Salary DESC) AS RowNo
   FROM Employee
) AS T
WHERE RowNo=1

Posted 30-Apr-15 2:57am

Maciej Los

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virusstorm · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-30T02:09:00

Solution 1

SQL

SELECT
    Employee.*
FROM Employee
INNER JOIN (
    SELECT
        Department,
        MAX(Salary) AS TopSalary
    FROM Employee
    GROUP BY
        Department) AS DepartmentSalaries
    ON Employee.Department = DepartmentSalaries.Department
    AND Employee.Salary = DepartmentSalaries.TopSalary

Posted 30-Apr-15 2:09am

virusstorm

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Maciej Los 30-Apr-15 8:58am

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