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Table: Employee

+--------------+---------+
| Column Name | Type |
+--------------+---------+
| Id | int |
| Name | varchar |
| Salary | int |
| DepartmentId | int |
+--------------+---------+
Id is the primary key for this table.
Each row contains the ID, name, salary, and department of one employee.

Table: Department

+-------------+---------+
| Column Name | Type |
+-------------+---------+
| Id | int |
| Name | varchar |
+-------------+---------+
Id is the primary key for this table.
Each row contains the ID and the name of one department.

Write an SQL query to find employees who earn the top three salaries in each of the
departments.

Return the result table in any order.

The query result format is in the following example:

Employee table:
+----+-------+--------+--------------+
| Id | Name | Salary | DepartmentId |
+----+-------+--------+--------------+
| 1 | Joe | 85000 | 1 |
| 2 | Henry | 80000 | 2 |
| 3 | Sam | 60000 | 2 |
| 4 | Max | 90000 | 1 |
| 5 | Janet | 69000 | 1 |
| 6 | Randy | 85000 | 1 |
| 7 | Will | 70000 | 1 |
+----+-------+--------+--------------+

Department table:
+----+-------+
| Id | Name |
+----+-------+
| 1 | IT |
| 2 | Sales |
+----+-------+

Result table:
+------------+----------+--------+
| Department | Employee | Salary |
+------------+----------+--------+
| IT | Max | 90000 |
| IT | Joe | 85000 |
| IT | Randy | 85000 |
| IT | Will | 70000 |
| Sales | Henry | 80000 |
| Sales | Sam | 60000 |
+------------+----------+--------+

In the IT department, Max earns the highest salary, both Randy and Joe earn the
second-highest salary, and Will earns the third-highest salary. There are only two
employees in the Sales department, Henry earns the highest salary while Sam earns
the second highest salary.

2) Given two tables as below,


write a query to display the
comparison result (higher/lower/same) of the
average salary of employees in a department to the company's average salary.

Table: salary
| id | employee_id | amount | pay_date |
|----|-------------|--------|------------|
| 1 | 1 | 9000 | 2017-03-31 |
| 2 | 2 | 6000 | 2017-03-31 |
| 3 | 3 | 10000 | 2017-03-31 |
| 4 | 1 | 7000 | 2017-02-28 |
| 5 | 2 | 6000 | 2017-02-28 |
| 6 | 3 | 8000 | 2017-02-28 |

The employee_id column refers to the employee_id in the following table employee.

| employee_id | department_id |
|-------------|---------------|
| 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 |
| 3 | 2 |

So for the sample data above, the result is:

| pay_month | department_id | comparison |


|-----------|---------------|-------------|
| 2017-03 | 1 | higher |
| 2017-03 | 2 | lower |
| 2017-02 | 1 | same |
| 2017-02 | 2 | same |

Explanation

In March, the company's average salary is (9000+6000+10000)/3 = 8333.33...

The average salary for department '1' is 9000, which is the salary of employee_id
'1' since there is only one employee in this department. So the comparison result
is 'higher' since 9000 > 8333.33 obviously.

The average salary of department '2' is (6000 + 10000)/2 = 8000, which is the
average of employee_id '2' and '3'. So the comparison result is 'lower' since 8000
< 8333.33.

With he same formula for the average salary comparison in February, the result is
'same' since both the department '1' and '2' have the same average salary with the
company, which is 7000.

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