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Top Customers by Region Spend
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Top Customers by Region Spend

EasySQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Business Context

Gallagher wants to identify its highest-value customers in each sales region for account planning and prioritization.

Task

Write a PostgreSQL query that calculates each customer's total invoice spend and returns the top three customers within every region.

Requirements

  1. Join customers to invoices using customer_id.
  2. Treat a NULL invoice amount as zero and display customers with a NULL region as Unassigned.
  3. Rank customers within each region by total spend descending. Break ties with the lower customer_id.
  4. Return the region, customer ID, customer name, total spend, and regional rank, ordered by region and rank.

Schema

customers
ColumnTypeDescription
customer_idPKINTUnique customer identifier
customer_nameVARCHAR(100)Customer or account name
regionVARCHAR(30)Gallagher sales region
invoices
ColumnTypeDescription
invoice_idPKINTUnique invoice identifier
customer_idINTCustomer associated with the invoice
invoice_dateDATEDate the invoice was issued
amountNUMERIC(12,2)Invoice amount
Tablescustomersinvoices
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