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Top 10 Products Last Quarter

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Problem

Business Context

Publicis Commerce analysts need a quarterly view of which catalog products generated the highest unit sales. For this exercise, use a reporting date of 2025-08-15, making the last quarter 2025-04-01 through 2025-06-30.

Task

Write a PostgreSQL query to return the top 10 products by sales volume during the last quarter.

Requirements

  1. Include only orders with status = 'completed'.
  2. Include orders on or after 2025-04-01 and before 2025-07-01.
  3. Calculate sales volume as the total ordered quantity for each product.
  4. Return product_id, product_name, and sales_volume, ordered from highest to lowest volume. Use product_id as a deterministic tie-breaker and return at most 10 rows.

Schema

products
ColumnTypeDescription
product_idPKINTUnique product identifier
product_nameVARCHAR(150)Product name in the catalog
orders
ColumnTypeDescription
order_idPKINTUnique order identifier
order_dateDATEDate the order was placed
statusVARCHAR(20)Order processing status
order_items
ColumnTypeDescription
order_item_idPKINTUnique order-line identifier
order_idINTReferences orders.order_id
product_idINTReferences products.product_id
quantityINTNumber of units ordered
Tablesproductsordersorder_items
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