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Build Monthly Retention Cohort Table

HardSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

You are given ACME House customer order activity and asked to build a monthly retention cohort table in SQL. Define each customer's cohort as the month of their first completed order in ACME House. Then calculate how many customers from each cohort returned in month 0, month 1, month 2, and month 3 based on completed orders only, along with the retention rate for each month as a percentage of the cohort size. Exclude canceled orders from both cohort assignment and retention activity. Return one row per cohort month, ordered chronologically.

Schema

orders
ColumnTypeDescription
order_idPKINTUnique order identifier
customer_idINTCustomer placing the order
order_dateDATEDate the order was created
order_statusVARCHAR(20)Lifecycle status of the order
order_totalDECIMAL(10,2)Total value of the order
channelVARCHAR(20)Purchase channel in ACME House
Tablesorders
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