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SQL for Cohort Ranking
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SQL for Cohort Ranking

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Write a SQL query to rank users within each cohort by spend and return the top 3 per cohort.

Use the users and purchases tables. Treat users with no purchases as having zero spend, exclude users without a cohort, and use user_id as the tie-breaker.

Output

  1. One row per selected user, with columns cohort, user_id, total_spend, and user_rank.
  2. Include no more than three users per cohort, ordered by cohort, total_spend descending, and user_id ascending.

Schema

users
ColumnTypeDescription
user_idPKINTUnique user identifier
cohortVARCHAR(20)Cohort identifier assigned to the user
purchases
ColumnTypeDescription
purchase_idPKINTUnique purchase identifier
user_idINTUser associated with the purchase
amountNUMERIC(10,2)Purchase amount
Tablesuserspurchases
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