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emp table [message #320298] Wed, 14 May 2008 11:11 Go to next message
mrpranab
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Hi All,

i need the highest salary payment details in each department from emp table. In the result i need all the fields of emp table...
e.g. if there are 3 deptno in emp table then 3 rows should fetch with the highest salary one employee details...

can i have the sql statements for this type of query...

thanks...
Re: emp table [message #320299 is a reply to message #320298] Wed, 14 May 2008 11:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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What should happen if two enployees in the same department both get the maximum salary
Re: emp table [message #320305 is a reply to message #320298] Wed, 14 May 2008 11:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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To help you understand JRowbottom's question, have a look at ROW_NUMBER, RANK and DENSE_RANK functions.

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Michel
Re: emp table [message #320306 is a reply to message #320305] Wed, 14 May 2008 11:36 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Shhhh! You're spoiling the fun.

I want to see what happens when the OP realises that his homework question requires additional information to answer
Re: emp table [message #320313 is a reply to message #320306] Wed, 14 May 2008 11:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ooops! sorry, I'm really slow this last couple of days.

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Re: emp table [message #320314 is a reply to message #320313] Wed, 14 May 2008 11:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Re: emp table [message #320382 is a reply to message #320299] Wed, 14 May 2008 22:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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JRowbottom - If 2 employees get same highest salary in the same dept then both should retrieve.

Michel - i will go through the functions.

Thanks.
Re: emp table [message #320438 is a reply to message #320382] Thu, 15 May 2008 02:26 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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In which case, a good solution would involve using the RANK or DENSE_RANK functions on the salary, partitioning by Dept_no to get a list of the highest salaries per department, and then picking only those rows with a RANK of 1
Re: emp table [message #320644 is a reply to message #320438] Thu, 15 May 2008 14:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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can we use DENSE_RANK function as rank values are not skipped in the event of ties. Rows with equal values for the ranking criteria receive the same rank.
Re: emp table [message #320722 is a reply to message #320644] Fri, 16 May 2008 01:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Yes
Re: emp table [message #320734 is a reply to message #320644] Fri, 16 May 2008 02:20 Go to previous message
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As the only rows you're interested in for this problem are the highest salary per department, both RANK and DENSE RANK will give the same results.
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