SQL Exercise: Employees whose salary is same as any one employee

SQL employee Database: Exercise-68 with Solution

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68. From the following tables, write a SQL query to find those employees whose salary is same as any one of the employee. Return complete information about the employees.

Sample table: employees

Sample Solution:

SELECT *
FROM employees
WHERE salary IN
    (SELECT salary
     FROM employees e
     WHERE employees.emp_id <> e.emp_id);

Sample Output:

 emp_id | emp_name | job_name | manager_id | hire_date  | salary  | commission | dep_id
--------+----------+----------+------------+------------+---------+------------+--------
  67858 | SCARLET  | ANALYST  |      65646 | 1997-04-19 | 3100.00 |            |   2001
  69062 | FRANK    | ANALYST  |      65646 | 1991-12-03 | 3100.00 |            |   2001
  65271 | WADE     | SALESMAN |      66928 | 1991-02-22 | 1350.00 |     600.00 |   3001
  66564 | MADDEN   | SALESMAN |      66928 | 1991-09-28 | 1350.00 |    1500.00 |   3001
(4 rows)

Explanation:

The said query in SQL that selects all the records from the 'employees' table where the salary is present in the subquery that selects the salary of all employees who have a different emp_id than the current record.

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Sample Database: employee

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