Relative Product Popularity

Relative Product Popularity :Evaluate Product Sales Performance Within Each Category by Relative Popularity and Rank Percentage Intermediate

Rank products within categories based on quantity sold as a percentage.

Xorthax wants to understand how popular each product is relative to others in its category. Write a query that assigns each product a relative position based on total quantity sold, expressed as a percentage of its category's ranking.
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This mirrors analyzing product performance within a category to see how each item compares to others based on sales volume.

You'll practice calculating relative rankings and interpreting percentage-based performance within grouped data.

This problem is labeled as Intermediate. It assumes you’ve written a few window function queries before, but you don’t need to be an expert. Use the hints and explanations if you get stuck — they’re there to help you think through the logic.

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