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Investigate SQL and Tableau Assumptions
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Investigate SQL and Tableau Assumptions

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Tell me about a time you used SQL and Tableau to analyze a messy or unclear question, including the assumptions you made and how you validated them.

Use the supplied tables to produce a representative SQL validation output that identifies record volume, distinct entities, missing values, and repeated entities by source.

Output

  1. One row per source, including sources with no records
  2. Columns: source_name, rows_loaded, distinct_entities, null_value_rows, duplicate_entity_rows
  3. Sort by source_name alphabetically

Schema

record_sources
ColumnTypeDescription
source_idPKINTUnique identifier for a data source
source_nameVARCHAR(100)Display name of the data source
expected_grainVARCHAR(100)Expected level of detail for source records
analysis_records
ColumnTypeDescription
record_idPKINTUnique record identifier
source_idINTIdentifier of the source that supplied the record
entity_idINTEntity associated with the record
observed_valueDECIMAL(10,2)Measured value used in analysis
captured_atDATEDate the record was captured
Tablesanalysis_recordsrecord_sources
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