SQL Top 3 Campaigns by Conversion | Dataford Interview Questions

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Problem

Digitas México needs a monthly view of campaign efficiency across paid media campaigns. Write a PostgreSQL query to identify the three campaigns with the highest conversion rate for each month.

Requirements

Join campaigns to campaign_metrics using campaign_id.
Aggregate impressions and conversions by campaign and calendar month.
Calculate conversion rate as total conversions divided by total impressions. Treat null conversions as zero and avoid division-by-zero errors.
Use a window function to return exactly the top three campaigns per month, breaking ties by lower campaign_id.

Schema

campaigns

Column	Type	Description
campaign_idPK	INT	Unique campaign identifier
campaign_name	VARCHAR(150)	Campaign display name
status	VARCHAR(20)	Campaign lifecycle status

campaign_metrics

Column	Type	Description
metric_idPK	INT	Unique metrics record identifier
campaign_id	INT	Campaign associated with the metrics
metric_date	DATE	Date on which metrics were recorded
impressions	INT	Number of impressions
conversions	INT	Number of attributed conversions