Supplier Pricing Percentiles:Rank Suppliers by Average Product Price to Evaluate Competitive Pricing Performance
Intermediate
Determine where each supplier falls in percent rank by average price.
Xorthax wants to evaluate suppliers based on the percent rank of their average product price. Write a query to calculate this rank for each supplier.
Write Your Query
Answer:
select s.supplierid,
s.name as suppliername,
avg(p.price) as averageprice,
percent_rank() over (
order by avg(p.price) desc) as pricingpercentrank
from suppliers s
join products p on s.supplierid = p.supplierid
group by s.supplierid,
s.name;
Explanation:
This reflects analyzing supplier pricing to determine how each supplier’s average price compares across the market.
You'll practice ranking aggregated results and interpreting percentile-based comparisons across grouped entities.
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