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Max Salary Department Query

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL00:00
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Problem

Wipro's workforce planning team needs to identify the department or departments containing the highest-paid employees. Write a PostgreSQL query that returns every department tied for the highest maximum employee salary.

Requirements

  1. Join departments with employees, preserving departments even when they have no employees.
  2. Calculate the maximum non-NULL salary for each department.
  3. Return all departments tied for the overall highest departmental maximum salary.
  4. Sort the result by department name.

Schema

departments
ColumnTypeDescription
department_idPKINTEGERUnique department identifier
department_nameVARCHAR(80)Department name
employees
ColumnTypeDescription
employee_idPKINTEGERUnique employee identifier
employee_nameVARCHAR(100)Employee name
department_idINTEGERDepartment assigned to the employee
salaryNUMERIC(12,2)Annual employee salary
Tablesdepartmentsemployees
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