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Top Accounts by SMS Volume
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Top Accounts by SMS Volume

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Write a SQL query using window functions to identify the top three customer accounts by SMS volume for each region over the last quarter at Twilio.

Use the provided account and SMS usage tables. The previous quarter is the completed calendar quarter before the current quarter. Include ties only according to the specified deterministic account ID tie-breaker.

Output

  1. One row per qualifying account, with region, account_id, account_name, sms_volume, and volume_rank.
  2. Include at most three accounts per region, ordered by region, volume_rank, and account_id.

Schema

customer_accounts
ColumnTypeDescription
account_idPKINTUnique Twilio customer account identifier
account_nameVARCHAR(100)Customer account name
regionVARCHAR(30)Customer account geographic region
sms_usage
ColumnTypeDescription
usage_idPKINTUnique SMS usage record identifier
account_idINTCustomer account associated with the usage
sent_atTIMESTAMPTimestamp when the SMS usage occurred
sms_countINTNumber of SMS messages represented by the record
Tablescustomer_accountssms_usage
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