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Running Total of Premiums

EasySQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

The Hanover Insurance Group needs a monthly view of posted policy premiums for financial reporting. Write a PostgreSQL query that aggregates premiums by calendar month and calculates a cumulative total across months.

Requirements

  1. Include only rows where premium_status is posted.
  2. Group premiums by the month of premium_date.
  3. Return the month, monthly premium amount, and running total ordered chronologically.
  4. Treat a month containing only NULL premium amounts as zero premium.

Schema

policy_premiums
ColumnTypeDescription
premium_idPKINTPrimary key for the premium record
policy_numberVARCHAR(20)Hanover policy identifier
premium_dateDATEDate the premium was recorded
premium_amountDECIMAL(12,2)Premium amount, which may be NULL
premium_statusVARCHAR(20)Processing status of the premium record
Tablespolicy_premiums
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