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SQL Join and Customer Totals
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SQL Join and Customer Totals

EasySQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Univar Solutions needs a customer-level sales summary for reporting across its chemical distribution business. Write a PostgreSQL query that joins customer records with qualifying sales transactions.

Requirements

  1. Return every customer from customers, including customers with no completed sales.
  2. Calculate each customer's total completed sales amount, treating missing or NULL amounts as zero.
  3. Include the number of completed sales transactions and order the results by total sales descending, then customer name ascending.

Place the sales-status condition in the join logic so customers without qualifying sales remain in the output.

Schema

customers
ColumnTypeDescription
customer_idPKINTUnique customer identifier
customer_nameVARCHAR(100)Customer account name
regionVARCHAR(50)Univar Solutions sales region
sales
ColumnTypeDescription
sale_idPKINTUnique sales transaction identifier
customer_idINTCustomer associated with the transaction
sale_dateDATETransaction date
sale_amountNUMERIC(12,2)Monetary value of the transaction
statusVARCHAR(20)Transaction status
Tablescustomerssales
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