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SQL โ€ข LESSON 192

End-to-End SQL Pipeline

How can we clean, deduplicate, validate, aggregate, and rank customer order data in one SQL transformation?

Advancedโฑ 3 Minutesโญ 2050 XP
๐Ÿค” THE QUESTION

How can we clean, deduplicate, validate, aggregate, and rank customer order data in one SQL transformation?

๐Ÿ’ก WHAT IS IT?

A 4-step CTE pipeline (deduplicated -> valid_orders -> customer_metrics -> ranked output) performs complete enterprise transformation.

๐ŸŽฏ WHAT IS IT USED FOR?

Production analytics engineering, full warehouse ELT pipeline, gold layer mart generation with customer ranking.

๐Ÿ’ป EXAMPLE
WITH deduplicated AS (
    SELECT *
    FROM (
        SELECT
            *,
            ROW_NUMBER() OVER (
                PARTITION BY order_id
                ORDER BY updated_at DESC
            ) AS rn
        FROM source_orders
    ) ranked
    WHERE rn = 1
),
valid_orders AS (
    SELECT *
    FROM deduplicated
    WHERE customer_id IS NOT NULL
    AND amount IS NOT NULL
    AND amount >= 0
),
customer_metrics AS (
    SELECT
        customer_id,
        COUNT(*) AS order_count,
        SUM(amount) AS total_spend
    FROM valid_orders
    GROUP BY customer_id
)
SELECT
customer_id,
order_count,
total_spend,
RANK() OVER (
    ORDER BY total_spend DESC
) AS customer_rank
FROM customer_metrics;

๐ŸŽฏ Mission Objectives

Practice typing production-grade SQL code for End-to-End SQL Pipeline.

  • โœ“ End-to-end SQL transformation
  • โœ“ Deduplicate -> Validate -> Aggregate -> Rank
  • โœ“ Enterprise analytics engineering
  • โœ“ Final production SQL mastery