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Monthly Sales Trends by Category

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Problem

NovaCart wants a monthly sales report by product category. Write a SQL query to calculate total sales per category for each month and show the month-over-month change within each category.

Requirements

  1. Join sales to products using product_id.
  2. Ignore rows where amount is NULL.
  3. Group results by category and month formatted as YYYY-MM.
  4. Return category, month, total_sales, and sales_trend.
  5. sales_trend should be the current month's total minus the previous month's total in the same category. For the first month in a category, return NULL.
  6. Order the final result by category, then month.

Schema

sales
ColumnTypeDescription
idPKINTPrimary key for sales records
product_idINTForeign key referencing products
sale_dateDATEDate of the sale
amountDECIMAL(10,2)Sale amount
products
ColumnTypeDescription
idPKINTPrimary key for product records
categoryVARCHAR(255)Category of the product
nameVARCHAR(255)Name of the product
Tablessalesproducts
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