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05 August 2008

181 Employees Earning More Than Their Managers

The 

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Employee
table holds all employees including their managers. Every employee has an Id, and there is also a column for the manager Id.

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+----+-------+--------+-----------+
| Id | Name  | Salary | ManagerId |
+----+-------+--------+-----------+
| 1  | Joe   | 70000  | 3         |
| 2  | Henry | 80000  | 4         |
| 3  | Sam   | 60000  | NULL      |
| 4  | Max   | 90000  | NULL      |
+----+-------+--------+-----------+

Given the 

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Employee
table, write a SQL query that finds out employees who earn more than their managers. For the above table, Joe is the only employee who earns more than his manager.

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+----------+
| Employee |
+----------+
| Joe      |
+----------+

Schema

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Create table If Not Exists Employee (Id int, Name varchar(255), Salary int, ManagerId int)
Truncate table Employee
insert into Employee (Id, Name, Salary, ManagerId) values ('1', 'Joe', '70000', '3')
insert into Employee (Id, Name, Salary, ManagerId) values ('2', 'Henry', '80000', '4')
insert into Employee (Id, Name, Salary, ManagerId) values ('3', 'Sam', '60000', 'None')
insert into Employee (Id, Name, Salary, ManagerId) values ('4', 'Max', '90000', 'None')

Solution

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# Write your MySQL query statement below
select e1.Name as Employee from Employee e1, Employee e2 
where e1.ManagerId = e2.Id and e1.Salary > e2.Salary
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