Join a table to itself in SQL

SQL interview exercise on Joins, difficulty 2 of 3. Solve it in the editor beside a worked example; the tests run the moment you do.

Return every employee with their manager's name. The CEO has no manager and still appears, with NULL. Columns: employee, manager. Sorted by employee.

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