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SQL Top Five Customers

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Problem

Farallon Capital Management's investor activity report needs a concise view of its highest-volume customers. Write a PostgreSQL query that identifies the top five customers by total sales amount.

Requirements

  1. Exclude rows where customer_name is NULL.
  2. Aggregate sales by customer using SUM.
  3. Return the five customers with the largest totals, ordered from highest to lowest sales volume.

Schema

customer_sales
ColumnTypeDescription
sale_idPKINTEGERUnique identifier for the sale
customer_nameVARCHAR(100)Name of the customer associated with the sale
sale_amountNUMERIC(12,2)Monetary value of the sale
sale_dateDATEDate on which the sale occurred
Tablescustomer_sales
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