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SQL for Avg Time Between Purchases
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SQL for Avg Time Between Purchases

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Given a table of user transactions at Seatgeek, write a query to find the average time elapsed between a user's first and second ticket purchase.

Use completed ticket purchase timestamps from user_transactions. Users without at least two purchases should not contribute to the average.

Output

  1. Return one row with average_elapsed_hours.
  2. Report the average elapsed time in hours as a numeric value.

Schema

user_transactions
ColumnTypeDescription
transaction_idPKINTUnique identifier for the ticket purchase transaction
user_idINTSeatGeek user who made the purchase
purchased_atTIMESTAMPTZTimestamp when the ticket purchase occurred
Tablesuser_transactions
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