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Highest Salaries Difference — LeetCode 2853 Python Solution

Topics
Database
Reading time
3 min

Table schema

SQLTable schema
Table: Salaries +-------------+---------+ | Column Name | Type | +-------------+---------+ | emp_name | varchar | | department | varchar | | salary | int | +-------------+---------+ (emp_name, department) is the primary key (combination of unique values) for this table. Each row of this table contains emp_name, department and salary.

Example

SQLExample
+-------------+---------+ 
| Column Name | Type    | 
+-------------+---------+ 
| emp_name    | varchar | 
| department  | varchar | 
| salary      | int     |
+-------------+---------+
(emp_name, department) is the primary key (combination of unique values) for this table.
Each row of this table contains emp_name, department and salary. There will be at least one entry for the engineering and marketing departments.

Python solution

PythonSolution
import duckdb
import pandas as pd

# Pass input tables as keyword arguments matching the SQL table names.
def solution(**tables) -> pd.DataFrame:
    con = duckdb.connect()
    for name, df in tables.items():
        con.register(name, df)
    return con.execute("""SELECT MAX(s) - MIN(s) AS salary_difference
FROM
    (
        SELECT MAX(salary) AS s
        FROM Salaries
        GROUP BY department
    ) AS t;""").df()

Complexity

Time
O(n log n)(typical)
Space · auxiliary
O(n)

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