So I have two tables salary and emp whose definition is shown as below
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I am tring to create a query that Find the employee who draws the maximum salary and Display the employee details along with the nationality.
I created this query
select empcode,
max(basic) as "Highest Sal"
from salary
join emp on empcode;
Please help with this
Your query uses a simple aggregate max(basic) which would find the highest salary. Except you need to join to the EMP table to display other details. This means you can't use aggregation, because we need to GROUP BY the non-aggregated columns, which would make a nonsense of the query.
Fortunately we can solve the problem with an analytic function. The subquery selects all the relevant information and ranks each employee by salary, with a rank of 1 being the highest paid. We use rank() here because that will handle ties: two employees with the same basic will be in the same rank.
select empcode
, empname
, nationality
, "Highest Sal"
from (
select emp.empcode
, emp.empname
, emp.nationality
, salary.basic as "Highest Sal"
, rank() over (order by salary.basic desc ) as rnk
from salary join emp on emp.empcode = salary.empcode
)
where rnk = 1;
Find the employee who draws the maximum salary
An employee can have multiple salaries in your datamodel. An employee's (total) salary hence is the sum of these. You want to find the maximum salary per employee and show the employee(s) earning that much.
You can use MAX OVER to find the maximum sum:
select e.*, s.total_salary
from emp e
join
(
select
empcode,
sum(basic) as total_salary,
max(sum(basic)) over () as max_total_salary
from salary
) s on s.empcode = e.empcode and s.total_salary = s.max_total_salary
order by e.empcode;
Try this:
SELECT * FROM
(SELECT E.EmpCode, E.EmpName, E.DOB, E.DOJ, E.DeptCode, E.DesgCode, E.PhNo,
E.Qualification, E.Nationality, S.Basic, S.HRA, S.TA, S.UTA, S.OTRate
FROM EMP AS E JOIN SALARY AS S ON (E.EmpCode = S.EmpCode) order by S.Basic desc)
WHERE rownum = 1
