Compare Tables and Find Missing Rows | Dataford Interview Questions

The Hanover Insurance Group needs to reconcile a policy administration feed with its daily warehouse snapshot. Write a PostgreSQL query that identifies policies present in only one of the two sources.

Requirements

Match records using policy_number.
Return policies missing from either hanover_policy_feed or hanover_policy_snapshot.
Show the policy number, discrepancy classification, and available status and line-of-business values from each source.
Exclude policies that exist in both tables, even when their status values differ.
Order the results by policy_number and then discrepancy.

Schema

hanover_policy_snapshot

Column	Type	Description
policy_numberPK	VARCHAR(20)	Unique policy identifier in the warehouse snapshot
policy_status	VARCHAR(20)	Policy status captured by the snapshot
line_of_business	VARCHAR(40)	Insurance line associated with the policy

hanover_policy_feed

Column	Type	Description
policy_numberPK	VARCHAR(20)	Unique policy identifier received from the source feed
policy_status	VARCHAR(20)	Policy status received from the source feed
line_of_business	VARCHAR(40)	Insurance line received from the source feed

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