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Database Queries and Data Understanding

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Describe how you approach database queries and understanding data and databases as a data engineer.

Demonstrate your approach by producing a customer-level summary from the provided relational data. Include customers without qualifying records and identify records where a completed order has a missing amount.

Output

  1. One row per customer, ordered by customer_id ascending
  2. Columns: customer_id, customer_name, completed_order_count, completed_revenue, latest_completed_order, and data_quality_flag
  3. Include all customers, including those with no completed orders

Schema

customers
ColumnTypeDescription
customer_idPKINTUnique customer identifier
customer_nameVARCHAR(100)Customer display name
orders
ColumnTypeDescription
order_idPKINTUnique order identifier
customer_idINTCustomer associated with the order
order_dateDATEDate on which the order was placed
statusVARCHAR(20)Order processing status
amountNUMERIC(10,2)Order amount
Tablescustomersorders
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