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Running 3-Month Moving Average

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Problem

Bain & Company's analytics team wants a monthly view of revenue performance by sales region. Write a PostgreSQL query that aggregates completed sales and calculates a running three-month moving average for each region.

Requirements

  1. Aggregate completed transaction revenue by region and calendar month.
  2. Calculate the average of the current month and up to the two preceding reported months within each region.
  3. Exclude cancelled transactions and rows without a matching region.
  4. Return results ordered by region and month.

Schema

regions
ColumnTypeDescription
region_idPKINTEGERUnique region identifier
region_nameVARCHAR(50)Sales region name
marketVARCHAR(50)Market served by the region
sales_transactions
ColumnTypeDescription
transaction_idPKINTEGERUnique transaction identifier
region_idINTEGERRegion associated with the transaction
sale_dateDATETransaction date
revenueNUMERIC(12,2)Transaction revenue
statusVARCHAR(20)Transaction status
Tablesregionssales_transactions
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