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Medium Database Product sales analysis iii
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Table: Sales
+-------------+-------+
| Column Name | Type |
+-------------+-------+
| sale_id | int |
| product_id | int |
| year | int |
| quantity | int |
| price | int |
+-------------+-------+
(sale_id, year) is the primary key (combination of columns with unique values) of this table.
Each row records a sale of a product in a given year.
A product may have multiple sales entries in the same year.
Note that the per-unit price.
Write a solution to find all sales that occurred in the first year each product was sold.
For each product_id, identify the earliest year it appears in the Sales table.
Return all sales entries for that product in that year.
Return a table with the following columns: product_id, first_year, quantity, and price.
Return the result in any order.
Solution
SQL
#
# Table: Sales
# +-------------+-------+
# | Column Name | Type |
# +-------------+-------+
# | sale_id | int |
# | product_id | int |
# | year | int |
# | quantity | int |
# | price | int |
# +-------------+-------+
# (sale_id, year) is the primary key (combination of columns with unique values) of this table.
# Each row records a sale of a product in a given year.
# A product may have multiple sales entries in the same year.
# Note that the per-unit price.
# Write a solution to find all sales that occurred in the first year each product was sold.
# For each product_id, identify the earliest year it appears in the Sales table.
# Return all sales entries for that product in that year.
# Return a table with the following columns: product_id, first_year, quantity, and price.
# Return the result in any order.
# Example 1:
# Input:
# Sales table:
# +---------+------------+------+----------+-------+
# | sale_id | product_id | year | quantity | price |
# +---------+------------+------+----------+-------+
# | 1 | 100 | 2008 | 10 | 5000 |
# | 2 | 100 | 2009 | 12 | 5000 |
# | 7 | 200 | 2011 | 15 | 9000 |
# +---------+------------+------+----------+-------+
# Output:
# +------------+------------+----------+-------+
# | product_id | first_year | quantity | price |
# +------------+------------+----------+-------+
# | 100 | 2008 | 10 | 5000 |
# | 200 | 2011 | 15 | 9000 |
# +------------+------------+----------+-------+
#
# Write your MySQL query statement below
SELECT s.product_id, s.year AS first_year, s.quantity, s.price
FROM Sales s
JOIN (
SELECT product_id, MIN(year) AS first_year
FROM Sales
GROUP BY product_id
) t ON s.product_id = t.product_id AND s.year = t.first_year;