MySQL Subquery Exercises: Find the name and salary of the employees who earn the same salary as the minimum salary for all departments

MySQL Subquery: Exercise-9 with Solution

Write a query to find the name (first_name, last_name), and salary of the employees who earn the same salary as the minimum salary for all departments.

Sample table: employees

Sample table : departments

Code:

SELECT * FROM employees 
WHERE salary = (SELECT MIN(salary) FROM employees);

Explanation:

MySQL Subquery Syntax :

- The subquery (inner query) executes once before the main query (outer query) executes.
- The main query (outer query) use the subquery result.

MySQL MIN() function returns the minimum value in a set of values.

MySQL Code Editor:

Structure of 'hr' database :

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