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SQL Window Functions for Revenue
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SQL Window Functions for Revenue

MediumSQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Devoteam's analytics team needs a cohort-level view of user revenue for its data platform. Write a PostgreSQL query that aggregates completed transaction revenue per user, then calculates both revenue rank and cumulative revenue within each signup-month cohort.

Requirements

  1. Derive each user's cohort from the month of signup_date.
  2. Include users with no completed transactions, treating their revenue as zero.
  3. Use window functions to calculate revenue_rank within each cohort and running_total ordered by revenue descending, with user_id as a deterministic tie-breaker.
  4. Exclude users whose signup date is unknown and transactions that are not completed.

Schema

users
ColumnTypeDescription
user_idPKINTUnique user identifier
user_nameVARCHAR(100)User display name
signup_dateDATEDate the user signed up
transactions
ColumnTypeDescription
transaction_idPKINTUnique transaction identifier
user_idINTUser associated with the transaction
amountNUMERIC(10,2)Revenue amount
statusVARCHAR(20)Transaction processing status
Tablesuserstransactions
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