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Level 4: Advanced Exercise 39 of 60 Pro

Rank within department

An SQL exercise from Querydrill. Solve it with a SQL editor in your browser, checked on the rows it returns and again on changed data, and it is checked the moment you submit.

The task

Return each employee's name, dept_id and their salary rank inside their own department, where 1 is the highest salary.

What this exercise teaches

Window functions calculate across related rows without collapsing them like GROUP BY does.

A hint if you get stuck

RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY ... ORDER BY ...).

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