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8 Weeks Sql Challenge

Omojuwa Oluwaseun · Follow
7 min read · May 3

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Introduction

I recently decided to challenge myself and participate in the 8-week sql challenge
hosted by Danny Ma. For the first case we were tasked with some business questions
that could help provide insights into the restaurant business that will help make
recommendations needed to grow

Danny seriously loves Japanese food so in the beginning of 2021, he decides to

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embark upon a risky venture and opens up a cute little restaurant that sells his 3
favourite foods: sushi, curry and ramen. His Diner is in need of assistance to help
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stay afloat —tothe restaurant
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their few months of operation but have no idea how to use their data to help them
run the business.

Problem Statement

Danny wants to use the data to answer a few simple questions about his customers,
especially about their visiting patterns, how much money they’ve spent and also
which menu items are their favourite. Having this deeper connection with his
customers will help him deliver a better and more personalized experience for his
loyal customers.

He plans on using these insights to help him decide whether he should expand the
existing customer loyalty program — additionally he needs help to generate some
basic datasets so his team can easily inspect the data without needing to use SQL.

Danny has provided you with a sample of his overall customer data due to privacy
issues and has shared 3 key datasets for this case study: Sales, Menu, Members

Case Study Questions

1. What is the total amount each customer spent at the restaurant?

2. How many days has each customer visited the restaurant?

3. What was the first item from the menu purchased by each customer?

4. What is the most purchased item on the menu and how many times was it
purchased by all customers?

5. Which item was the most popular for each customer?

6. Which item was purchased first by the customer after they became a member?

7. Which item was purchased just before the customer became a member?

8. What is the total items and amount spent for each member before they became

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a member?

9. If each $1 You are signed out. Sign in with your member account
spent equates to 10 points and sushi has a 2x points multiplier — how
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many points would each customer have?

10. In the first week after a customer joins the program (including their join date)
they earn 2x points on all items, not just sushi — how many points do customer
A and B have at the end of January?

Solutions

1. To solve this question, I joined the sales and menu table, the customer id was
selected and the aggregate of the amount they spent was also selected using the
sum function.

Answer: Customer A spent $76, Customer B spent $74 while Customer C spent $36

2. To do this, I selected the customer id, and the count of their unique order dates,
the distinct function here is to enable us choose the unique number of times they
visited the restaurant

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Answer: Customer A visited the restaurant 4 times while customer B a total of 6

times and Customer C had a total of 2 times.

3. To solve this, CTE was created to rank each customer’s order, so that older dates
had rank 1 and earlier dates had higher ranks. After which I joined the CTE to the
menu table, using product_id , and filtered the result to return records with only 1
as the rank.

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Answer: Customer A’s first item ordered were Sushi & Curry, customer B’s first item
ordered was Curry, while customer C’s first item ordered was Ramen.

4. To do this, I used the count function and also aggregated it by product name to
allow us see how many times each product were bought. The limit function was set
to 1 to return only the item with the highest purchase

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Answer: the product with the highest purchase by all customers is Ramen and it was
purchased 8 times.

5. To know the most popular items, we need to have an idea of how many times a
customer purchased an item. to do this, a CTE was created with the customer-id,
product_name and count of each product, the Rank windows function was also used
to rank the count of products from highest to lowest. I also filtered it to return result
with ranks that only have 1

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Answer: Ramen was the most popular item for customer A with 1 count. Sushi,
curry, and Ramen had equal number of times they were purchased for customer B
with 2 each. Ramen was the most popular item for customer C with 3 counts.

7. To answer this question, I used a Common Table Expression (CTE) to join the
sales and menu tables. I then used the MAX function to extract the latest order date
for each customer. After which I filtered the results to only include orders made by
each customer just before they joined the member's loyalty program.

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Answer: Customer A ordered Sushi and Curry just before they joined the
membership, while Customer B ordered Sushi

8. To address this question, I performed a join on the three tables and utilized the
COUNT function to determine the number of times each customer made a
purchase, as well as the SUM function to calculate the total cost of each customer’s
purchases. After which I applied a WHERE clause to limit the results to purchases
made before the customer joined the loyalty program.

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Answer: Customer A bought a total of two items where they spent $25 while
Customer B bought a total of three items and spent $40 before they joined.

9. To solve this challenging question, I utilized the CASE statement to categorize and
group the points earned by customers based on their purchases of sushi and other
items. This statement was used to create a new column called ‘points’ that showed
the total points earned by each customer, based on the conditions set in the CASE
statement. Additionally, I joined the sales and menu tables using the common
primary key (product_id) to extract the products purchased, the amount spent on
each product, and the total points earned by each customer.

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Answer: Customer A had a total point of 860, Customer B had a total point of 940,
while customer C had a total point of 360.

Bonus Question:

The following questions are related creating basic data tables that Danny and his
team can use to quickly derive insights without needing to join the underlying tables
using SQL.
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Recreate the tableAnalysis

Titanic Survival with: customer_id , order_date , product_name , price , member

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26 the analysis, I discovered a few interesting things that would be certainly
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useful for Danny.

• Customer B is the most frequent visitor with 6 visits in Jan 2021.

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• Danny’s Diner’s most popular item is ramen.

• Customer A and C loves ramen whereas Customer B seems to enjoy sushi, curry
and ramen equally.

• Customer A is the 1st member of Danny’s Diner and his first order is curry.

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• Before they became members, Customer A and Customer B spent $25 and $40
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• Throughout Jan 2021, Customer A, Customer B and Customer C had 860 points,

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940 points and Customer C: 360 points respectively.

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Completing this project was a huge and challenging task, but it marks just the
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beginning of our journey. I am committed to completing many more projects and
tasks in the future, and with each one, will continue to grow and improve our skills.

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