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SQL Top 5 Conference Rooms
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SQL Top 5 Conference Rooms

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Write a SQL query to find the top 5 most frequently used conference rooms from a table of raw meeting start and end times.

Count each valid meeting record once. Exclude records missing a room or either timestamp, and exclude records whose end time is not after their start time.

Output

  1. One row per room, with room_name and meeting_count.
  2. Return at most five rooms, ordered by meeting count descending, then room name ascending for ties.

Schema

meeting_records
ColumnTypeDescription
meeting_idPKINTUnique meeting record identifier
room_nameVARCHAR(100)Conference room name
start_timeTIMESTAMPMeeting start timestamp
end_timeTIMESTAMPMeeting end timestamp
Tablesmeeting_records
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