Filtering Before Limiting

How can we find the highest-paid engineers?

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🤔 THE QUESTION

How can we find the highest-paid engineers?

💡 WHAT IS IT?

The WHERE clause filters rows before ORDER BY sorts and LIMIT caps the final result.

🎯 WHAT IS IT USED FOR?

Scoped top-N queries, departmental leadership rankings, regional revenue leaders.

💻 EXAMPLE

SELECT name, salary
FROM employees
WHERE department = 'Engineering'
ORDER BY salary DESC
LIMIT 5;

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