Monthly Revenue by Segment | Dataford Interview Questions

Regions Financial wants a monthly view of revenue generated across its customer segments. Write a PostgreSQL query that summarizes posted transaction revenue for the first quarter of 2025.

Requirements

Join customers to customer_segments and card_transactions using their related keys.
Include only transactions with status = 'posted' from January through March 2025, using a half-open date range.
Group revenue by calendar month and customer segment, and sort chronologically by month and alphabetically by segment.
Ignore transactions that cannot be associated with a valid customer or segment.

Schema

customer_segments

Column	Type	Description
segment_idPK	INT	Unique customer segment identifier
segment_name	VARCHAR(50)	Business name of the customer segment

customers

Column	Type	Description
customer_idPK	INT	Unique customer identifier
customer_name	VARCHAR(100)	Customer's display name
segment_id	INT	Reference to customer_segments

card_transactions

Column	Type	Description
transaction_idPK	INT	Unique transaction identifier
customer_id	INT	Reference to customers
posted_at	DATE	Date the transaction was posted
revenue_amount	DECIMAL(12,2)	Revenue amount associated with the transaction
status	VARCHAR(20)	Processing status of the transaction

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