Unbroken Chains of Loyalty

Unbroken Chains of Loyalty :Find Customers with the Longest Consecutive Monthly Order Streaks and Analyze Engagement Durations Advanced

Amid the constellations of commerce, only a few customers blaze with streaks unbroken across the passing months.

Xorthax wants to find the single longest streak of consecutive months where each customer placed at least one order. Show the the first day of the start month as a date, the first day of the end month as a date, and streak length for each customer, ordered by the highest streaks first.
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This reflects tracking consistent customer engagement by identifying streaks of continuous monthly activity or purchases.

You'll practice detecting consecutive patterns, grouping continuous sequences, and ranking the longest streaks within partitioned data.

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