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Top 5 Products Per Month

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

CGI's retail reporting team needs a monthly view of its best-selling products. Write a PostgreSQL query that ranks products by units sold from completed orders.

Requirements

  1. Join orders, order_items, and products, excluding canceled or unknown-status orders.
  2. Aggregate item quantities by calendar month and product.
  3. Return the five highest-selling products for each month, ordered by units sold descending and product ID ascending to break ties.

Schema

orders
ColumnTypeDescription
order_idPKINTEGERUnique order identifier
order_dateDATEDate on which the order was placed
statusVARCHAR(20)Order lifecycle status
order_items
ColumnTypeDescription
order_item_idPKINTEGERUnique order line identifier
order_idINTEGERReferences orders.order_id
product_idINTEGERReferences products.product_id
quantityINTEGERNumber of units on the order line
products
ColumnTypeDescription
product_idPKINTEGERUnique product identifier
product_nameVARCHAR(100)Display name of the product
categoryVARCHAR(50)Product category
Tablesordersorder_itemsproducts
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