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Top Security Log Customers
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Top Security Log Customers

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Write a SQL query to find the top five customers with the highest volume of security logs over the last thirty days.

Use the customers and security_logs tables. Count only logs associated with a known customer and logged within the last thirty days.

Output

  1. One row per customer, with customer_id, customer_name, and log_volume.
  2. Return at most five customers, ordered by log_volume descending, with customer_id ascending as the tie-breaker.

Schema

customers
ColumnTypeDescription
customer_idPKINTUnique customer identifier
customer_nameVARCHAR(150)Customer display name
security_logs
ColumnTypeDescription
log_idPKINTUnique security log identifier
customer_idINTCustomer associated with the log
logged_atDATEDate the security log was recorded
log_sourceVARCHAR(80)Originating security monitoring source
Tablescustomerssecurity_logs
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