L1 Q5
Beginner Level
Practice Question
Level 1 - Question 5: Find the Highest Salary
Scenario
Your manager wants to identify the employee with the highest salary to prepare for annual performance reviews.
Task
Write a SQL query to retrieve the highest salary from the employees table.
Sample Schema: employees
| emp_id | name | department | salary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 301 | Arif Hossain | IT | 9500 |
| 302 | Monika Das | Sales | 8800 |
| 303 | Rezaul Karim | Finance | 12000 |