SQL Aggregation Over Positives and Negatives | Dataford Interview Questions

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Problem

3Pillar's project delivery dashboard stores financial adjustments and credits as positive or negative work log values. Write a PostgreSQL query that reports the separate positive and negative totals for every project, including projects without work log entries.

Requirements

Use a CTE to classify each work log amount as either a positive value or a negative value.
Return one row per project with positive_sum and negative_sum.
Treat zero and NULL amounts as contributing zero to both totals.
Use a LEFT JOIN so projects without work logs remain in the result, and order the output by project ID.

Schema

projects

Column	Type	Description
project_idPK	INTEGER	Primary key for the project
project_name	VARCHAR(100)	Project name

work_logs

Column	Type	Description
work_log_idPK	INTEGER	Primary key for the work log
project_id	INTEGER	References projects.project_id and may be NULL for unassigned entries
amount	DECIMAL(12,2)	Positive, negative, zero, or NULL adjustment
entry_label	VARCHAR(100)	Short description of the work log entry