Write a query to rank employees based on their incentives for a month?

Question

Table Name : Employee
Employee_id First_name Last_name Salary Joining_date Department
1 John Abraham 1000000 01-JAN-13 12.00.00 AM Banking
2 Michael Clarke 800000 01-JAN-13 12.00.00 AM Insurance
3 Roy Thomas 700000 01-FEB-13 12.00.00 AM Banking
4 Tom Jose 600000 01-FEB-13 12.00.00 AM Insurance
5 Jerry Pinto 650000 01-FEB-13 12.00.00 AM Insurance
6 Philip Mathew 750000 01-JAN-13 12.00.00 AM Services
7 TestName1 123 650000 01-JAN-13 12.00.00 AM Services
8 TestName2 Lname% 600000 01-FEB-13 12.00.00 AM Insurance
Table Name : Incentives

Employee_ref_id Incentive_date Incentive_amount
1 01-FEB-13 5000
2 01-FEB-13 3000
3 01-FEB-13 4000
1 01-JAN-13 4500
2 01-JAN-13 3500

Answer 1

select FIRST_NAME,INCENTIVE_AMOUNT,DENSE_RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY INCENTIVE_DATE ORDER BY INCENTIVE_AMOUNT DESC) AS Rank from EMPLOYEE a, INCENTIVES b where a.EMPLOYEE_ID=b.EMPLOYEE_REF_ID

Explanation : In order to rank employees based on their rank for a month, "DENSE_RANK" keyword is used. Here partition by keyword helps us to sort the column with which filtering is done. Rank is provided to the column specified in the order by statement. The above query ranks employees with respect to their incentives for a given month.