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Weekly Store Hours and Redis Queries
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Weekly Store Hours and Redis Queries

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Given the opening and closing hours of a store in the week (format Mon-01..Sun-07 plus HHMM, e.g. StartTime=011000, EndTime=011700), find the list of all 5-minute-interval timestamps to query Redis; handle ranges that wrap past the end of the week.

Asked in the phone screen stage. Treat the opening timestamp as inclusive and the closing timestamp as exclusive.

Output

  1. One row per store and five-minute timestamp, with columns store_id and timestamp_code.
  2. Include valid non-null hour ranges, including weekly wraparound ranges.
  3. Order by store_id, then chronological position within the week.

Output details

  • Format timestamp_code as a two-digit day number (01 through 07) followed by four-digit HHMM, with no separator.
  • Treat equal opening and closing timestamps as a full-week range rather than an empty range.
  • Exclude hours records whose store_id has no matching store.
  • Preserve duplicate timestamps produced by overlapping or repeated hours records.

Schema

stores
ColumnTypeDescription
store_idPKINTUnique store identifier
store_nameVARCHAR(100)Store display name
store_hours
ColumnTypeDescription
hours_idPKINTUnique opening-hours record
store_idINTReferenced store
start_timeVARCHAR(6)Opening code containing a two-digit day and HHMM time
end_timeVARCHAR(6)Exclusive closing code containing a two-digit day and HHMM time
Tablesstoresstore_hours
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