SQL Schema
The Employee table holds all employees. Every employee has an Id, and there is also a column for the department Id.
+----+-------+--------+--------------+
| Id | Name | Salary | DepartmentId |
+----+-------+--------+--------------+
| 1 | Joe | 70000 | 1 |
| 2 | Henry | 80000 | 2 |
| 3 | Sam | 60000 | 2 |
| 4 | Max | 90000 | 1 |
| 5 | Janet | 69000 | 1 |
| 6 | Randy | 85000 | 1 |
+----+-------+--------+--------------+
The Department table holds all departments of the company.
+----+----------+
| Id | Name |
+----+----------+
| 1 | IT |
| 2 | Sales |
+----+----------+
Write a SQL query to find employees who earn the top three salaries in each of the department. For the above tables, your SQL query should return the following rows.
+------------+----------+--------+
| Department | Employee | Salary |
+------------+----------+--------+
| IT | Max | 90000 |
| IT | Randy | 85000 |
| IT | Joe | 70000 |
| Sales | Henry | 80000 |
| Sales | Sam | 60000 |
+------------+----------+--------+
My code:
# Write your MySQL query statement below
SELECT
d.Name AS 'Department', e1.Name AS 'Employee', e1.Salary
FROM
Employee e1
JOIN
Department d ON e1.DepartmentId = d.Id
WHERE
3 > (SELECT
COUNT(DISTINCT e2.Salary)
FROM
Employee e2
WHERE
e2.Salary > e1.Salary
AND e1.DepartmentId = e2.DepartmentId
)
;Solution: https://leetcode.com/problems/department-top-three-salaries/