Classify Customer Membership by Total Spend | Dataford Interview Questions

Scenario

A retail company wants to analyze customer purchase behavior and assign membership status based on total spending.

Write a SQL query to produce a summary of each customer's total spending, order count, and membership status.

Join customers and orders to aggregate spending and order count per customer.
Assign membership status:
- 'Gold' if total spending is at least 900
- 'Silver' if total spending is at least 500 but less than 900
- 'Bronze' otherwise
Include all customers, even those without orders (show 0 and 'Bronze' for them).
Order results by total spending descending.

customers

Column	Type	Description
customer_idPK	INT	Unique identifier for each customer
customer_name	VARCHAR(255)	Name of the customer

orders

Column	Type	Description
order_idPK	INT	Unique identifier for each order
customer_id	INT	Reference to the customer who placed the order
amount	DECIMAL(10,2)	Total amount for the order

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