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System Design with SQL

HardSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Describe how you would design and implement a data engineering solution using SQL, including key components and trade-offs.

Use the provided customer, order, and order-item data. For this exercise, calculate customer metrics for completed orders placed from 2025-01-01 through 2025-03-31, while including customers with no qualifying orders. Your approach should avoid counting an order multiple times because it contains multiple items.

Output

  1. One row per customer with customer_id, customer_name, completed_order_count, total_items, total_revenue, and average_order_value.
  2. Include customers with no qualifying orders using zero-valued metrics.
  3. Sort by total_revenue descending, then customer_id ascending.

Schema

customers
ColumnTypeDescription
customer_idPKINTUnique customer identifier
customer_nameVARCHAR(100)Customer display name
emailVARCHAR(255)Customer email address
orders
ColumnTypeDescription
order_idPKINTUnique order identifier
customer_idINTCustomer who placed the order
order_dateDATEDate the order was placed
statusVARCHAR(20)Order lifecycle status
order_items
ColumnTypeDescription
order_item_idPKINTUnique order-item identifier
order_idINTOrder containing the item
item_nameVARCHAR(120)Name of the purchased item
quantityINTNumber of units purchased
unit_priceDECIMAL(10,2)Price per unit
Tablescustomersordersorder_items
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