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SQL Top 10 Products by Sales
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SQL Top 10 Products by Sales

EasySQL · PostgreSQL

Problem

Business context

SMX tracks product-level sales events in its commerce reporting pipeline. The data science team needs a quick ranking of products with the highest completed sales volume.

Task

Write a PostgreSQL query to return the top 10 SMX products by total completed units sold.

Requirements

  1. Include only rows where sale_status is completed, then group records by product_name and sum units_sold.
  2. Return product_name and total_units_sold, ordered from highest to lowest volume. Treat a product with only missing unit values as zero, and use product name as a deterministic tie-breaker.

Schema

smx_product_sales
ColumnTypeDescription
sale_idPKINTUnique identifier for a product sales event.
product_nameVARCHAR(100)Name of the SMX product.
units_soldINTNumber of units in the sales event.
sale_statusVARCHAR(20)Processing status of the sales event.
sale_dateDATEDate the sales event was recorded.
Tablessmx_product_sales
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