Species-Based Order Tiers :Group Orders by Total Amount into Four Spending Levels per Species Intermediate
Rank orders into 4 spending groups within each species.
Xorthax wants to categorize all orders into 4 spending tiers for each species. Write a query to rank orders by total amount within each species.
Write Your Query
It models customer segmentation where businesses analyze purchase data to identify spending behavior across demographic or category groups.
You’ll practice ranking and segmenting data within partitions to compare spending performance across multiple groups.
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