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Clean Duplicate Transactions and Null Costs
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Clean Duplicate Transactions and Null Costs

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

You are given transaction-level cost data that may contain duplicate records and missing cost values. Write a PostgreSQL query that returns one reporting row per customer and month, using the latest version of each transaction, removing duplicate transaction records, and replacing null cost values with the customer’s average non-null cost for that month. If a customer-month has no non-null cost at all, use 0.

Schema

transactions
ColumnTypeDescription
transaction_idVARCHAR(20)Business transaction identifier
customer_nameVARCHAR(100)Customer name
transaction_dateDATEDate the transaction occurred
costDECIMAL(10,2)Transaction cost, may be missing
updated_atTIMESTAMPTimestamp of the latest record version
Tablestransactions
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