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Mining Common Purchase Sequences
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Mining Common Purchase Sequences

HardSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

The monday Data Analytics team wants to understand which actions most often lead to a purchase in monday Work Management. Given ordered user events, write a PostgreSQL query that identifies the most common sequence of the three actions immediately preceding a purchase.

Requirements

  1. Partition event ordering by user_id and session_id, and order events chronologically using event_time and event_id as a tie-breaker.
  2. Consider only purchases that have three preceding non-NULL actions in the same session.
  3. Represent each sequence in chronological order, such as view_board > open_item > invite_member.
  4. Count purchases and distinct users for each exact sequence.
  5. Return every sequence tied for the highest purchase count, including its rank, ordered by purchase count descending and sequence ascending.

Schema

user_events
ColumnTypeDescription
event_idPKINTUnique event identifier
user_idINTmonday user identifier
session_idVARCHAR(50)Session containing the event
event_timeTIMESTAMPTimestamp when the event occurred
actionVARCHAR(50)Recorded user action
Tablesuser_events
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