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Data Analyst Online Test Prep

EasySQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

How would you prepare for an online test that includes Python and SQL questions in 1.5 hours?

You are given a short list of topics and a time budget. Write a SQL query that returns the topics to study first, ordered by priority and then by topic name. Ignore any topic with a NULL priority.

Output

  1. One row per topic with a non-NULL priority
  2. Columns: topic, priority
  3. Sort by priority descending, then topic ascending

Schema

study_topics
ColumnTypeDescription
topic_idPKINTUnique topic identifier
topicVARCHAR(100)Study topic name
priorityINTPriority score for study ordering
Tablesstudy_topics
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