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SQL for Duplicate Customer Removal

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Problem

Write a SQL query to identify and remove duplicate customer records from a primary transaction table.

Use customer_records and transactions. Treat non-null email addresses as duplicate identifiers after trimming whitespace and applying case-insensitive matching. Keep the record with the earliest created_at, using the lowest customer_id as the tie-breaker, reassign related transactions to the retained record, and remove the duplicates.

Output

  1. Return one row per removed customer with removed_customer_id, email, full_name, and created_at.
  2. Order by removed_customer_id ascending.

Schema

customer_records
ColumnTypeDescription
customer_idPKINTUnique customer record identifier
emailVARCHAR(255)Customer email address used for duplicate matching
full_nameVARCHAR(150)Customer's full name
created_atTIMESTAMPTimestamp when the customer record was created
transactions
ColumnTypeDescription
transaction_idPKINTUnique transaction identifier
customer_idINTCustomer associated with the transaction
transaction_statusVARCHAR(30)Current transaction status
amountNUMERIC(10,2)Transaction amount
Tablescustomer_recordstransactions
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