Part 8 SQL Query to find department with highest number of employees HD

Link for all dot net and sql server video tutorial playlists http://www.youtube.com/user/kudvenkat/playlists Link for slides, code samples and text version of the video http://csharp-video-tutorials.blogspot.com/2014/06/part-8-sql-query-to-find-department.html Scenario asked in the SQL Server Interview Based on the above two tables write a SQL Query to get the name of the Department that has got the maximum number of Employees. To answer this question it will be helpful if you the knowledge of JOINS & GROUP BY in SQL Server. We discusses these in Parts 11 & 12 of SQL Server Tutorial video series. SQL query that retrieves the department name with maximum number of employees SELECT TOP 1 DepartmentName FROM Employees JOIN Departments ON Employees.DepartmentID = Departments.DepartmentID GROUP BY DepartmentName ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC Scenario asked in the SQL Server Interview Based on the above two tables write a SQL Query to get the name of the Department that has got the maximum number of Employees. To answer this question it will be helpful if you the knowledge of JOINS & GROUP BY in SQL Server. We discusses these in Parts 11 & 12 of SQL Server Tutorial video series. SQL query that retrieves the department name with maximum number of employees SELECT TOP 1 DepartmentName FROM Employees JOIN Departments ON Employees.DepartmentID = Departments.DepartmentID GROUP BY DepartmentName ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC