SQL Query: How to Find Salary Dept wise

Here’s an interview question; asked in many interviews. The question: Write SQL query to find Salaries paid department-wise. You can get salaries paid to employees for each of the department codes from the EMPLOYEE table.

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Get Table Details

Take a look at this table by using the describe table command (DESC EMPLOYEE) or by using a full select statement (SELECT * FROM EMPLOYEE).

You can get the department code for an employee from the workdept column for the table and the relevant salary from the salary column of the same row.

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How to Write SQL Query

For arriving department-wise salary, you can use the SUM function. How do you tell the SUM function that you want different sums for each of the department codes?

Easy: you can tell by using work dept in GROUP BY. That’s the purpose of the group by clause.

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select workdept, sum(salary) as newsalary
from employee
group by workdept

WORKDEPT NEWSALARY

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D11                  646620.00
A00                  354250.00
B01                   94250.00
E11                  317140.00
4 record(s) selected.