The Waning Moon of Commerce

The Waning Moon of Commerce :Detect and Rank the Longest Consecutive Periods of Low Revenue to Analyze Business Slowdowns Advanced

Under certain moons, business dimmed, leaving Xorthax to endure the longest nights of quiet trade.

Xorthax is tracking business slowdowns. Find stretches of consecutive days where the total daily revenue from orders fell below 25,000. From those stretches, return the five longest, making sure ties in length are treated as equally ranked. Show the start date, end date, and streak length, ordered first by streak length and then by start date.
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This models identifying extended periods of low revenue to evaluate sales slowdowns or seasonal business dips.

You'll practice finding consecutive time-based patterns, ranking results with ties, and analyzing grouped intervals within a dataset.

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