Fetch only the department that has the highest number of employees - mysql

Question

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?

Answer 1

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
)
)

Answer 2

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;

Answer 3

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)

Answer 4

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
)

Answer 5

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)