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Resolve Conflicting Customer Attributes
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Resolve Conflicting Customer Attributes

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

You are given customer profile data from ACME House CRM and ACME House Checkout, and some fields conflict across sources. Write a PostgreSQL query that returns one resolved row per customer for customers who appear in both systems. For each customer, choose the most trustworthy email and city using this logic: prefer the value from the most recently updated record; if the latest value is NULL or an empty string, fall back to the other source. Also return a discrepancy_flag of 'conflict' when the non-blank values differ across the two sources, otherwise 'match_or_missing'.

Schema

crm_customers
ColumnTypeDescription
customer_idPKINTCustomer identifier in CRM
full_nameVARCHAR(100)Customer full name
emailVARCHAR(255)Email stored in CRM
cityVARCHAR(100)City stored in CRM
updated_atTIMESTAMPLast CRM update timestamp
checkout_customers
ColumnTypeDescription
checkout_idPKINTCheckout profile row identifier
customer_idINTCustomer identifier linked to CRM
emailVARCHAR(255)Email captured in checkout
cityVARCHAR(100)City captured in checkout
updated_atTIMESTAMPLast checkout update timestamp
Tablescrm_customerscheckout_customers
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