The Employee table holds all employees. Every employee has an Id, a salary, 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            |
+----+-------+--------+--------------+

The Department table holds all departments of the company.

+----+----------+
| Id | Name     |
+----+----------+
| 1  | IT       |
| 2  | Sales    |
+----+----------+

Write a SQL query to find employees who have the highest salary in each of the departments. For the above tables, Max has the highest salary in the IT department and Henry has the highest salary in the Sales department.

+------------+----------+--------+
| Department | Employee | Salary |
+------------+----------+--------+
| IT         | Max      | 90000  |
| Sales      | Henry    | 80000  |
+------------+----------+--------+

這道題讓給了我們兩張表，Employee表和Department表，讓我們找系裡面薪水最高的人的，實際上這題是Second Highest Salary和Combine Two Tables

解法一：

SELECT d.Name AS Department, e1.Name AS Employee, e1.Salary FROM Employee e1
JOIN Department d ON e1.DepartmentId = d.Id WHERE Salary IN 
(SELECT MAX(Salary) FROM Employee e2 WHERE e1.DepartmentId = e2.DepartmentId);

我們也可以不用Join關鍵字，直接用Where將兩表連起來，然後找最高薪水的方法和上面相同：

解法二：

SELECT d.Name AS Department, e.Name AS Employee, e.Salary FROM Employee e, Department d
WHERE e.DepartmentId = d.Id AND e.Salary = (SELECT MAX(Salary) FROM Employee e2 WHERE e2.DepartmentId = d.Id);

下面這種方法沒用用到Max關鍵字，而是用了>=符號，實現的效果跟Max關鍵字相同，參見程式碼如下：

解法三：

SELECT d.Name AS Department, e.Name AS Employee, e.Salary FROM Employee e, Department d
WHERE e.DepartmentId = d.Id AND e.Salary >= ALL (SELECT Salary FROM Employee e2 WHERE e2.DepartmentId = d.Id);

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