Order Titans of the Stars :Rank Customers by Number of Orders and Compare Tie Handling Intermediate
Spot the customers with the most orders and compare their rankings.
Xorthax wants to understand how frequently each customer shops at his trading post. Calculate how many orders each customer has placed, then assign two types of rankings: one that gives tied customers the same position without skipping any numbers, and another that assigns the same position to ties but does skip numbers
Write Your Query
It reflects customer activity analysis where businesses identify their most frequent shoppers based on order count.
You’ll practice aggregating customer activity and comparing how different ranking methods handle tied values.
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