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Running Totals of Disbursements
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Running Totals of Disbursements

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Write a query to calculate running totals of loan disbursements by day.

Use the provided loan disbursement records. Include every date represented in the data, treating a date with only NULL disbursement amounts as zero.

Output

  1. One row per disbursement date.
  2. Columns: disbursement_date, daily_disbursements, and running_total.
  3. Sort by disbursement_date ascending.

Schema

loan_disbursements
ColumnTypeDescription
disbursement_idPKINTUnique identifier for the disbursement record
disbursement_dateDATEDate on which the loan disbursement occurred
disbursement_amountDECIMAL(12,2)Amount disbursed for the record
Tablesloan_disbursements
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