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SQL and dbms Join Concepts
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SQL and dbms Join Concepts

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Explain how SQL and DBMS concepts show up in your day-to-day SQL and programming work.

Use the supplied relational data to demonstrate this with a query that calculates customer activity for the first quarter of 2025.

Output

  1. One row per customer, including customers with no qualifying orders.
  2. Columns: customer_id, customer_name, segment, order_count, total_revenue, revenue_rank, and activity_status.
  3. Rank customers by total revenue descending, use customer ID as the tie-breaker, and return rows in rank order.

Schema

customers
ColumnTypeDescription
customer_idPKINTUnique customer identifier
customer_nameVARCHAR(100)Customer display name
segmentVARCHAR(30)Customer segmentation label
orders
ColumnTypeDescription
order_idPKINTUnique order identifier
customer_idINTCustomer associated with the order
order_dateDATEDate the order was placed
amountNUMERIC(10,2)Order revenue amount
Tablescustomersorders
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