Finding the second highest salary by subqueries - mysql

I have two tables employees and departments.
Employees table has name, salary, department_id.
Departments table has department_id, department_name
I have to display the employee with the second highest(Literally the only one employee who has the second highest salary among every employee in the employees table) and his department_name using subqueries
select
max(e.salary),
d.department_name
from oehr_employees e
join oehr_departments d on(e.department_id = d.department_id)
where e.salary not in(
select max(salary) from oehr_employees
)
group by department_name
tried to do this one, but it shows only the second highest salary of each department. Have no idea what to do :/
Tried searching for answers but didn't quite get what I wanted.

If you want to do it using subqueries, you can try like following to get the details of employee(s) and department(s) with 2nd highest salary.
select e.name,e.salary,d.department_id,d.department_name
from
oehr_employees e
join oehr_departments d on e.department_id = d.department_id
WHERE e.salary IN (SELECT Max(salary)
FROM oehr_employees
WHERE salary NOT IN (SELECT Max(salary)
FROM oehr_employees));

If you just want the second more high salary, you can use limit and offset.
Would not it be a valid solution?
select e.salary,d.department_name
from oehr_employees e
join oehr_departments d on(e.department_id = d.department_id)
ORDER BY e.salary DESC LIMIT 1 OFFSET 1

Use ROW_NUMBER():
SELECT *
FROM (
SELECT
e.employee_id,
d.department_id,
e.salary,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY e.salary DESC) rn
FROM oehr_employees e
INNER JOIN oehr_departments d
ON e.department_id = d.department_id
) x WHERE rn = 2

I would just modify your query a bit and add limit 1:
select e.*, d.department_name
from oehr_employees e join
oehr_departments d
on e.department_id = d.department_id)
where e.salary < (select max(e2.salary) from oehr_employees e2)
order by e.salary desc
limit 1;
This seems to meet the arcane requirement of using subqueries. And it is a reasonable approach.

Related

Find the salary of the youngest and eldest employee in each department

There are two tables
1) Employee
id | Name | Department | Dob
2) Salary
id | salary
I want to find the salary of the youngest and eldest employee in each department.
But using the the following query i am not able to get the correct id,salary.
SELECT salary.id,employee.Dept,salary.salary,MIN(employee.DoB)
from employee
INNER JOIN salary ON salary.id = employee.id GROUP by Dept
The above query is returning correct Dob but the ids and the salary are not matching with the Date of birth.
If you are running MySQL 8.0, just use window functions:
select *
from (
select
e.*,
s.salary,
row_number() over(partition by department order by dob asc) rn_asc,
row_number() over(partition by department order by dob desc) rn_desc
from employee e
inner join salary s on s.id = employee.id
) t
where 1 in (rn_asc, rn_desc)
In earlier versions, one option is to join with an aggregate query:
select e.*, s.salary
from employee e
inner join salary s on s.id = employee.id
inner join (
select department, min(dob) min_dob, max(dob) max_dob
from employee
group by department
) d on d.department = e.department and e.dob in (d.min_dob, d.max_dob)
I think I would use = twice with correlated subqueries:
select s.*, e.department
from salary join
employee e
on s.id = e.id
where e.dob = (select min(e2.dob) from employee e where e2.department = e.department) or
e.dob = (select max(e2.dob) from employee e where e2.department = e.department) ;
With an index on employee(department, dob), I would expect this to have very good performance.

Maximum average departmental salary

i have employee and department table i need to find maximum average departmental salary.We can have two more than 1 maximum value.I tried the following query
select dept.name,avg(employee.sal)
from employee,dept
where dept.id=empolyee.id
group by dept.name
LIMIT 1
however i can manage only one maximum average salary, how can i get query more than one maximum value
You need to join with another query that gets the maximum average, then return all the rows with the same average.
SELECT t1.name, t1.avgSal
FROM (SELECT d.name, avg(e.sal) AS avgSal
FROM employee AS e
JOIN dept AS d ON d.id = e.dept_id
GROUP BY d.name) AS t1
JOIN (SELECT d.name, avg(e.sal) AS avgSal
FROM employee AS e
JOIN dept AS d ON d.id = e.dept_id
GROUP BY d.name
ORDER BY avgSal DESC
LIMIT 1) AS t2
ON t1.avgSal = t2.avgSal

Fetch only the department that has the highest number of employees

I have 2 tables in my database.
Table 1. employee
id
name
department_id
Table 2. department
id
name
What will be the query to fetch all employees with their department?
So I have written this query
SELECT employee.name
, department.name
FROM employee
JOIN department
ON employee.department_id = department.id
And this seems to be correct but I am not able to write a query if I want to fetch only the department that has the highest number of employees. How can I achieve this?
To guarantee just one department...
SELECT
*
FROM
department
WHERE
id = (SELECT department_id
FROM employee
GROUP BY department_id
ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC
LIMIT 1
)
Note, if two departments are tied with joint maximum employees, this will still only select One of them (arbitrarily chosen, potentially different each time).
To handle ties, you could do the following...
SELECT *
FROM department
WHERE id IN (SELECT department_id
FROM employee
GROUP BY department_id
HAVING COUNT(*) = (SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM employee
GROUP BY department_id
ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC
LIMIT 1
)
)
This is a real pain to handle in MySQL. Here is one option:
SELECT d1.id, d1.name
FROM department d1
INNER JOIN employee e1
ON d1.id = e1.department_id
GROUP BY d1.id, d1.name
HAVING COUNT(*) = (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM department d2 INNER JOIN employee e2
ON d2.id = e2.department_id
GROUP BY d2.id ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC LIMIT 1);
Note that if you were using a database with analytic function support, such as SQL Server, then the problem gets much easier:
SELECT id, name
FROM
(
SELECT d.id, d.name, DENSE_RANK() OVER (ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC) dr
FROM department d
INNER JOIN employee e
ON d.id = e.department_id
GROUP BY d.id, d.name
) t
WHERE t.dr = 1;
This question can be solved in multiple ways:
Using sub query
SELECT name FROM department
WHERE id IN
(SELECT department_id FROM employee HAVING COUNT(department_id)
IN
(SELECT MAX(COUNT(department_id)) FROM employee) GROUP BY department_id)
Using Join
SELECT name FROM employee e
INNER JOIN
department d ON e.department_id = d.id
HAVING COUNT(e.department_id)
IN
(SELECT MAX(COUNT(department_id)) from employee) group by department_id)
first check the column related two types have same name, same data type and the use subquery
SELECT name
FROM department
WHERE id IN (
SELECT department_id
FROM employees
HAVING COUNT(department_id) IN (
SELECT MAX(COUNT(dept_id))
FROM employees
)
GROUP BY department_id
)
Your query should work for the first question.
for the second, You can use this. The sub query would give you the dept Id for the most employees, which the outer query would give additional details for.
select * from department where department_id in
(select limit 1 Employee.department_id from Employee group by department_id
order by count(Employee.name) desc)

MySQL query to find employees salary greater than any manager

So, I have this schema:
Emp(eid: integer,ename: string,age: integer,salary: real)
Works(eid:integer,did: integer,pct_time: integer)
Dept(did:integer,budget: real,managerid:integer)
I want to return the employees whose salary is greater that any manager (regardless of their department).
select E.ename, D.did, E.eid
from Emp E
join Works W ON E.eid = W.eid
join Dept D ON D.did = W.did
where E.salary > (select E2.salary from Emp E2, Dept D2
where E2.eid = D2.managerid)
But the sub query statement is returning more than one row. How can I compare multiple rows from 2 tables to get the correct result? Grouping should work, right?
Your requirement could be translated to finding out an employee who exist a manager that have salary lower than his salary.
You could try this.
SELECT e.*
FROM emp e
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1
                       FROM emp e2 INNER JOIN
                            dept d2
                           ON e2.eid = d2.managerid
                      WHERE  e2.salary < e.salary);
If you want to return the employees whose salary is greater that any manager, then why dont you just find out all the employees who have a salary greater than the minimun salary of all managers?
select E.ename, D.did, E.eid
from Emp E
join Works W ON E.eid = W.eid
join Dept D ON D.did = W.did
where E.salary > (select min(E2.salary)
from Emp E2, Dept D2
where E2.eid = D2.managerid)
I don't see why you need the works table. The question is about any manager. One way that you can write this is using > all:
select e.*
from emp e
where e.salary > all (select e2.salary
from emp e2 join
dept d2
on e2.eid = d2.managerid
);
You can run the subquery and see that it returns the salaries of all managers. You want employees whose salary is greater than those.
EDIT:
Does this version work?
select e.*
from emp e
where e.salary > (select MAX(e2.salary)
from emp e2 join
dept d2
on e2.eid = d2.managerid
);
The > all may not work as expected if any salaries are NULL.

select department(s) with maximum number of employees

I have two tables EMP(id,name,DEPT_id) and DEPT(id ,name). I need to find the department(s) in which the maximum number of employees work. Please help.
This will give the department name of the department which is having maximum number of employees.
Select DEPT_NAME from department where DEPT_ID = (select DEPT_ID from (Select DEPT_ID, count(DEPT_ID) from Employee group by DEPT_ID order by count(DEPT_ID) desc) where rownum = 1);
Just a little more verbose than the other two solutions, but it will get the job done...feel free to tweak to your convenience.
select countbydept.*
from
(
-- from EMP table, let's count number of records per dept
-- and then sort it by count (highest to lowest)
-- and take just the first value. We just care about the highest
-- count
select dept_id, count(*) as counter
from emp
group by dept_id
order by counter desc
limit 1
) as maxcount
inner join
(
-- let's repeat the exercise, but this time let's join
-- EMP and DEPT tables to get a full list of dept and
-- employe count
select
dept.id,
dept.`name`,
count(*) as numberofemployees
from dept
inner join emp on emp.dept_id = dept.id
group by dept.id, dept.`name`
) countbydept
-- combine the two queries's results by matching the employee count
on countbydept.numberofemployees = maxcount.counter
Example: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/7d6a2d/1
Try this query.
SELECT a.name,Max(a.NumEmp) AS maxEmpCount FROM ( SELECT d.name,COUNT(*) AS NumEmp FROM EMP e INNER JOIN DEPT d ON e.DEPT_id = d.id GROUP BY e.DEPT_id ) AS a GROUP BY a.name
you can solve this using with statement like this:
with deps as
(select dep.department_name as dep_name, count(emp.employee_id) as cnt
from departments dep
inner join employees emp
on emp.department_id = dep.department_id
group by dep.department_name)
select deps.dep_name,cnt from deps
where cnt=(select max(cnt) from deps)
OR
select dep.department_name as dep_name, count(emp.employee_id) as cnt
from departments dep
inner join employees emp
on emp.department_id = dep.department_id
group by dep.department_name
having count(emp.employee_id) >= all (select count(emp.employee_id) as cnt
from departments dep
inner join employees emp
on emp.department_id =
dep.department_id
group by dep.department_name)
OR
with s1 as
(select dep.department_name as dep_name,
count(emp.employee_id) over(partition by dep.department_name) as cnt
from departments dep
inner join employees emp
on emp.department_id = dep.department_id
order by cnt desc),
s2 as
(select s1.dep_name,
s1.cnt,
row_number() over(order by cnt desc) as row_num
from s1)
select dep_name from s2 where row_num = 1
these solutions are proper for databases like Oracle that we do not have top(1) or limit 1
select Top 1 d.DNAME,count(e.ename) as counts from emp e,dept d where d.DEPTNO=e.DEPTNO
group by d.DNAME
order by counts desc
Or
select d.DNAME,count(e.ename) as counts from emp e,dept d where d.DEPTNO=e.DEPTNO
group by d.DNAME
having count(e.ename) = (select max(micount) from (select count(deptno) micount from emp group by DEPTNO) a)
You can try this query.
Select Id, Name from Dept
Where Id = (Select Top(1) DeptId from Emp
Group By DeptId
order by Count(DeptId) desc)
you can create view to find it.
CREATE VIEW TEMP AS SELECT COUNT(EMP.id) AS A, DEPT.name AS B
FROM EMP JOIN DEPT ON EMP.DEPT_id=DEPT.id GROUP BY DEPT.id;
SELECT MAX(A) FROM TEMP;
Now, EMP(id,name,DEPT_id) and DEPT(id ,name) these two tables are given. Now, I insert some entries in the table in such a manner that:
SELECT COUNT(*) AS NO_OF_EMPLOYEES,
DEPARTMENT.DEPT_NAME
FROM EMP, DEPARTMENT
WHERE EMP.DEPT_ID=DEPARTMENT.DEPT_ID
GROUP BY EMP.DEPT_ID
ORDER BY NO_OF_EMPLOYEES;
This query generates the following:
NO_OF_EMPLOYEES DEPT_NAME
3 Research
3 Finance
4 Sales
4 Product
Now, the query which gives the correct result:
SELECT COUNT(*) AS MAX_NO_OF_EMPLOYEES,
DEPARTMENT.DEPT_NAME
FROM EMP, DEPARTMENT
WHERE EMP.DEPT_ID=DEPARTMENT.DEPT_ID
GROUP BY EMP.DEPT_ID
HAVING MAX_NO_OF_EMPLOYEES=(
SELECT COUNT(*) AS NO_OF_EMPLOYEES
FROM EMP
GROUP BY DEPT_ID
ORDER BY NO_OF_EMPLOYEES DESC
LIMIT 1
);
It will generate:
MAX_NO_OF_EMPLOYEES DEPT_NAME
4 Sales
4 Product
This question can be solved in multiple ways
Using sub query
SELECT name FROM dept WHERE id IN (SELECT dept_id FROM emp HAVING COUNT(dept_id) IN (SELECT MAX(COUNT(dept_id)) FROM emp) GROUP BY dept_id)
Using Join
SELECT name FROM emp e INNER JOIN dept d ON e. dept_id = d. id HAVING COUNT(e.dept_id) IN (SELECT MAX(COUNT(dept_id)) from emp) group by dept_id)
If you have only emp table then below query will hep you get a results -
select a.* from (select deptno, dense_rank() over(order by count(*) desc ) as rank from dbo.emp group by deptno) a where a.rank =1
select deptno,count(*)from emp group by
deptno having count(*)=(select max(count(*))from emp group by deptno);
SELECT department_id, count(employee_id) as 'No_of_Emp'
FROM employees
GROUP BY department_id
ORDER BY No_of_Emp DESC