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Detect Duplicate Customer Records

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

How would you write a query to identify duplicate records in a customer database for Pattern’s ecommerce partner data?

Treat records as duplicates when they belong to the same partner and have the same email after trimming whitespace and ignoring letter case. Exclude NULL and empty email values.

Output

  1. One row per partner and normalized duplicate email.
  2. Return partner_id, partner_name, normalized_email, duplicate_count, and comma-separated record_ids.
  3. Sort by partner_id, then normalized_email.

Schema

ecommerce_partners
ColumnTypeDescription
partner_idPKINTUnique ecommerce partner identifier
partner_nameVARCHAR(120)Partner display name
customer_records
ColumnTypeDescription
customer_idPKINTUnique customer record identifier
partner_idINTEcommerce partner associated with the record
emailVARCHAR(255)Customer email address as received from the partner
full_nameVARCHAR(150)Customer name as received from the partner
Tablesecommerce_partnerscustomer_records
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