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Consecutive Purchase Customers

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

You have a table of customer orders. Write a query to identify customers who have made a purchase in three consecutive months.

Treat multiple orders within the same calendar month as one purchase month. Ignore orders with a missing customer or order date.

Output

  1. Return one row per qualifying customer.
  2. Include the column customer_id.
  3. Sort results by customer_id ascending.

Schema

customer_orders
ColumnTypeDescription
order_idPKINTUnique order identifier
customer_idINTCustomer who placed the order
order_dateDATEDate when the order was placed
order_amountDECIMAL(10,2)Total order amount
Tablescustomer_orders
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