SQL to show top 3 maximum salary

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Let's say there is a table Employee with columns Id (primary key), Name and Salary. How can I display 3 rows of employees with the highest salaries?

Posted 12-Feb-13 2:03am

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Maciej Los · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-12T02:10:00

Solution 2

Try something like this:

SQL

SELECT TOP(3) [ID], [Name], MAX([Salary])
FROM YourTable
GROUP BY [ID], [Name]
ORDER BY [Salary] DESC

Posted 12-Feb-13 2:10am

Maciej Los

Updated 12-Feb-13 2:20am

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shiny13 12-Feb-13 8:16am

That's ok no need to join, the table Employee has these columns: Id, Name and Salary. You can just perform this operation there.

Maciej Los 12-Feb-13 8:19am

You're right! Thank you.

shiny13 12-Feb-13 8:27am

Best answer! :)

Maciej Los 12-Feb-13 9:19am

Thank you ;)

Espen Harlinn 12-Feb-13 11:27am

5'ed!

Maciej Los 12-Feb-13 11:32am

Thank you, Espen ;)

Irbaz Haider Hashmi · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-12T02:05:00

Solution 1

SQL

select top 3 Name,Salary from Employee order by Salary desc

Edit by shiny13: Oracle equivalent to Top is Rownum, for MySQL its limit.

Posted 12-Feb-13 2:05am

Irbaz Haider Hashmi

Updated 12-Feb-13 2:29am

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shiny13 12-Feb-13 8:07am

Thanks! Is this only for SQL Server? Or will this sql also run in MySQL and Oracle? Is there any chance to solve this with aggregate functions like Max(Salary) ?

shiny13 12-Feb-13 8:27am

I have found the solution to Oracle, the equivalent to Top is Rownum. For MySQL its limit... Thanks for suggesting Top though.