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SQL Topper Employees Query
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SQL Topper Employees Query

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Suppose you have an Employee table with id, name, salary, deptid; fetch employees who are toppers in their own department and write the SQL query.

Treat all employees tied for the highest salary in a department as toppers. Exclude employees without a department or salary.

Output

  1. One row per qualifying employee, with columns id, name, salary, and deptid
  2. Include all salary ties for the departmental maximum
  3. Order by deptid ascending, then id ascending

Schema

employee
ColumnTypeDescription
idPKINTUnique employee identifier
nameVARCHAR(100)Employee name
salaryINTEmployee salary
deptidINTDepartment identifier
Tablesemployee
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