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 |+------------+----------+--------+
# Write your MySQL query statement belowSELECT d.`Name` AS Department, e1. NAME AS Employee, e1.SalaryFROM employee e1 JOIN department d ON e1.DepartmentId=d.IdWHERE 3 > ( SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT Salary) FROM employee e2 WHERE e2.Salary > e1.Salary AND e1.DepartmentId = e2.DepartmentId )