SQL Query to fetch emloyee name, salary where employee name is provided - mysql

Question

For an Employee table with columns EmpId, Name and Salary Table with columns Id, EmpId, Salary, where EmpId of salary table is Foreign Key of Employee Table.
Is it possible to write a SQL query so that the result contains each employee's name and the salary of all employees provided by a employee name?
Sample Data
Employee Table
EmpId Name
1 Alice
2 Bob
3 Charlie
4 Doug
Salary Table
Sample Data
Id EmpId Salary
1 1 1000
2 2 2000
3 3 3000
4 4 4000
Query I tried, but could not see, how I can write employee name say, Bob, where I want to fetch employee who have higher salary than Bob. Below query gives result with salary perspective, but how to fetch by employee name?
--Updated with Order By Clause, Thanks #Strawberry
SELECT s.salary
, e.empname
FROM
test.employee as e, test.salary as s
WHERE s.empid = e.empid AND s.salary > 2000
ORDER BY s.Salary DESC
LIMIT 3;

Answer 1

Here is the query with which you can fetch the salary of Bob:
SELECT Salary
FROM salary
WHERE EmpId = 2;
Now you want to fetch all names and salaries of employees who have higher salary than what you fount with the query above. Therefore you will use the above query as a nested one in WHERE. Here you go:
SELECT employee.EmpId, employee.Name, salary.Salary
FROM employee
JOIN salary ON employee.EmpId = salary.EmpId
WHERE salary > (
SELECT Salary
FROM salary
WHERE EmpId = 2
);
Edit - below in the comments you said that you want to filter by Name, not EmpId. Therefore you probably want to filtler with WHERE Name="Bob". The problem is that usually names are not unique. Therefore you may have two people named "Bob". If that is the case, you must figure out a solution which salary to get - they may be different.
Here is an example query that will get the salary of person named "Bob" who have the highest salary among all Bobs, then filter the other employees to have higher salary than whatever is fount:
SELECT employee.EmpId, employee.Name, salary.Salary
FROM employee
JOIN salary ON employee.EmpId = salary.EmpId
WHERE salary > (
SELECT MAX(Salary)
FROM salary
WHERE EmpId IN (
SELECT EmpId
FROM employee
WHERE Name="Bob"
)
);
Eventual issue may come if there is NO person named "Bob". The above query will return an empty set. If you want to print all people instead, you can do something like this:
SELECT employee.EmpId, employee.Name, salary.Salary
FROM employee
JOIN salary ON employee.EmpId = salary.EmpId
WHERE salary > (
SELECT IF(MAX(Salary) IS NULL, 0, MAX(Salary))
FROM salary
WHERE EmpId IN (
SELECT EmpId
FROM employee
WHERE Name="Bob"
)
);
Now if there is no "Bob", it will still print all people with salaries above 0.