SQL query help

[Pawanpreet Singh]

I have table with columns as name, deptno and salary.

I need to get the names which has maximum salary in their deptmenets.

I could able to find maximum salaries in each department using

select depno, max(sal) from emp GROUP BY deptno;

But how to get correspodning names?

Thanks
Pawan
SCJP 5.0, SCWCD 1.4

[Campbell Ritchie]

Add "name" to the fields to be selected?

[edit]Add: That would probably work for a simple query, but you might need nested "selects" for anything more complicated.[/edit]
[ September 17, 2008: Message edited by: Campbell Ritchie ]

[Shailesh Chandra]

Which Database are you using ?

you can try this query, I haven't tested it

select name, depno, sal from emp where (depno, sal) in (
select depno, max(sal) from emp GROUP BY deptno)


Shailesh
[ September 17, 2008: Message edited by: Shailesh Chandra ]