The First Order Ever Placed:Find Each Customer’s Earliest Order Date and Amount in the Galactic Trading Post
Intermediate
Find the earliest order date and amount for every customer in the galaxy.
Xorthax wants to know the first order placed by each customer in the galaxy. Write a query to find the first order date and the orderid and total amount of the first order for every customer.
Write Your Query
Answer:
with first_order as
(select customerid,
orderid,
orderdate,
totalamount,
first_value(orderdate) over (partition by customerid
order by orderdate asc) as firstorderdate
from orders)
select customerid,
orderid,
totalamount,
firstorderdate
from first_order
where orderdate=firstorderdate;
Explanation:
This mirrors analyzing customer purchase histories to identify their first transaction or onboarding date in a sales database.
You’ll practice retrieving the earliest record per group using ordered analytical techniques and logical partitioning.
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