Bandwidth Usage Moving Averages | Dataford Interview Questions

Netflix Streaming Quality needs a subscriber-level view of bandwidth consumption. Write a PostgreSQL query that summarizes daily bandwidth usage for the requested date range and applies window functions per subscriber.

Requirements

Join subscriber metadata to usage_events and include usage from April 1 through April 7, 2024.
Aggregate multiple usage events on the same subscriber and date into daily_bandwidth_mb. Treat a day containing only NULL bandwidth values as zero.
Calculate a three-row moving average, including the current day and up to the two preceding usage days for that subscriber.
Calculate the cumulative distribution of each subscriber's daily bandwidth using CUME_DIST(), ordered from lowest to highest daily usage. Return rows ordered by subscriber and usage date.

Schema

subscribers

Column	Type	Description
subscriber_idPK	INT	Unique subscriber identifier
profile_name	VARCHAR(50)	Netflix profile name
plan_tier	VARCHAR(20)	Subscription plan tier

usage_events

Column	Type	Description
usage_idPK	INT	Unique bandwidth event identifier
subscriber_id	INT	Subscriber associated with the event
usage_date	DATE	Date of bandwidth usage
bandwidth_mb	NUMERIC(10,2)	Bandwidth consumed in megabytes
playback_surface	VARCHAR(30)	Netflix playback device or surface

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