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Top 10 Sales SQL Query
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Top 10 Sales SQL Query

EasySQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Can you write SQL queries to find the top 10 sales from a sales database?

Use the provided sales, customers, and products tables. Include completed sales with non-null amounts and matching customer and product records.

Output

  1. Return one row per sale with sale_id, sale_date, customer_name, product_name, and sale_amount.
  2. Return at most 10 rows, ordered by sale_amount descending, with sale_id ascending as the tie-breaker.

Schema

sales
ColumnTypeDescription
sale_idPKINTUnique sale identifier
customer_idINTCustomer associated with the sale
product_idINTProduct included in the sale
sale_dateDATEDate the sale occurred
amountDECIMAL(12,2)Total monetary value of the sale
statusVARCHAR(20)Sale processing status
customers
ColumnTypeDescription
customer_idPKINTUnique customer identifier
customer_nameVARCHAR(100)Customer display name
products
ColumnTypeDescription
product_idPKINTUnique product identifier
product_nameVARCHAR(100)Product display name
Tablessalescustomersproducts
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