Question

Suppose i have two tables

declare @emp table
(
  EmpID int,
  EmpName varchar(10)

)

declare @Remu table
(
   EmpID int,
   Sal Decimal(10,2),
   PaidYear varchar(10)
)

I want maximum salary grouped on PaidYear (With Ties)

Expected OUTPUT

EmpID EmpName PaidYear Sal 
1     Jon     2001     2000
2     Smith   2001     2000

3     Nash   2003      4000     
4     Hoge   2005      5000
5     Peter  2005      5000

I have an issue when using Join

select e.EmpID,e.EmpName,r.Sal,r.PaidYear from @emp e
inner join
(select max(Sal) as Sal,PaidYear from @Remu group by PaidYear)r
on e.EmpID=???

when i select EmpID in

select max(Sal) as Sal,PaidYear from @Remu group by PaidYear

i have to Group by PaidYear and EmpID,which won’t give the desired result as i expected.

How to solve this.I want a query which should be compatible with SQL Server 2000.

Answer 1

select e.EmpID,e.EmpName,r.Sal,r.PaidYear
from @emp e inner join @Remu r on e.EmpId = r.EmpId
where r.sal in (select max(sal) from @remu group by paidyear)