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Running Total by Product

EasySQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

EPAM Systems wants a daily revenue view for products sold through its digital services portfolio. Write a PostgreSQL query that reports revenue by product and date for the reporting period from 2025-01-01 through 2025-01-04.

Requirements

  1. Include every product and every date in the reporting period, including combinations with no completed sales.
  2. Calculate daily_revenue as quantity * unit_price, counting only sales with status = 'completed'. Treat missing revenue as zero.
  3. Calculate a cumulative running_total separately for each product, ordered chronologically.
  4. Calculate daily_change as the difference between the current day's revenue and the previous day's revenue for that product. Return NULL for the first date.
  5. Include the product category and sort the final output by product ID and date.

Schema

categories
ColumnTypeDescription
category_idPKINTCategory identifier
category_nameVARCHAR(100)Category name
products
ColumnTypeDescription
product_idPKINTProduct identifier
product_nameVARCHAR(150)Product name
category_idINTReferences categories.category_id
sales
ColumnTypeDescription
sale_idPKINTSale identifier
product_idINTReferences products.product_id
sale_dateDATEDate on which the sale occurred
quantityINTNumber of units sold
unit_priceNUMERIC(10,2)Price per unit
statusVARCHAR(20)Sale processing status
Tablescategoriesproductssales
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