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Monthly Retention SQL

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Write a SQL query to find the monthly retention rate of users who signed up for a free tier of MongoDB Atlas over the last year.

Treat retention for each calendar month as the percentage of eligible free-tier users who had activity during that month. Include users from the trailing 12-month signup window and exclude paid-tier users.

Output

  1. One row per calendar month in the trailing 12-month period.
  2. Columns: month_start, eligible_users, retained_users, and retention_rate.
  3. Sort chronologically by month_start; calculate the rate as a percentage rounded to two decimal places.

Schema

atlas_users
ColumnTypeDescription
user_idPKINTUnique Atlas user identifier
signup_dateDATEDate the user signed up
tierVARCHAR(20)User subscription tier
atlas_activity
ColumnTypeDescription
activity_idPKINTUnique activity event identifier
user_idINTUser associated with the activity
activity_dateDATEDate of the Atlas activity
activity_typeVARCHAR(30)Type of product activity
Tablesatlas_usersatlas_activity
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