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Practice SQL Window Functions | Xorthax's Trading Post

Tables Used

customers

Column	Type
customerid	bigint
name	text
species	text
contactinfo	text
loyaltystatus	text
joindate	text

orders

Column	Type
orderid	bigint
customerid	bigint
orderdate	timestamp without time zone
totalamount	double precision
status	text

Expected Output

Column
species
customerid
totalspending
spendingtier

33. Galactic Spending Tiers

Segment customers into 4 spending levels within their species.

Xorthax wants to group his customers into 4 tiers based on their total spending at his trading post. Write a query to assign each customer to a spending tier within their species.

Write Your Query

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