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#1479
Hard Database

Sales by day of the week

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Mar 31, 2026
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# Table: Orders
# 
# +---------------+---------+
# | Column Name   | Type    |
# +---------------+---------+
# | order_id      | int     |
# | customer_id   | int     |
# | order_date    | date    |
# | item_id       | varchar |
# | quantity      | int     |
# +---------------+---------+
# (ordered_id, item_id) is the primary key (combination of columns with unique values) for this table.
# This table contains information on the orders placed.
# order_date is the date item_id was ordered by the customer with id customer_id.
# 
#  
# 
# Table: Items
# 
# +---------------------+---------+
# | Column Name         | Type    |
# +---------------------+---------+
# | item_id             | varchar |
# | item_name           | varchar |
# | item_category       | varchar |
# +---------------------+---------+
# item_id is the primary key (column with unique values) for this table.
# item_name is the name of the item.
# item_category is the category of the item.
# 
#  
# 
# You are the business owner and would like to obtain a sales report for category items and the day of the week.
# 
# Write a solution to report how many units in each category have been ordered on each day of the week.
# 
# Return the result table ordered by category.
# 
# The result format is in the following example.
#
# Example 1:
# Input:
# Orders table:
# +------------+--------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+
# | order_id   | customer_id  | order_date  | item_id      | quantity    |
# +------------+--------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+
# | 1          | 1            | 2020-06-01  | 1            | 10          |
# | 2          | 1            | 2020-06-08  | 2            | 10          |
# | 3          | 2            | 2020-06-02  | 1            | 5           |
# | 4          | 3            | 2020-06-03  | 3            | 5           |
# | 5          | 4            | 2020-06-04  | 4            | 1           |
# | 6          | 4            | 2020-06-05  | 5            | 5           |
# | 7          | 5            | 2020-06-05  | 1            | 10          |
# | 8          | 5            | 2020-06-14  | 4            | 5           |
# | 9          | 5            | 2020-06-21  | 3            | 5           |
# +------------+--------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+
# Items table:
# +------------+----------------+---------------+
# | item_id    | item_name      | item_category |
# +------------+----------------+---------------+
# | 1          | LC Alg. Book   | Book          |
# | 2          | LC DB. Book    | Book          |
# | 3          | LC SmarthPhone | Phone         |
# | 4          | LC Phone 2020  | Phone         |
# | 5          | LC SmartGlass  | Glasses       |
# | 6          | LC T-Shirt XL  | T-Shirt       |
# +------------+----------------+---------------+
# Output:
# +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
# | Category   | Monday    | Tuesday   | Wednesday | Thursday  | Friday    | Saturday  | Sunday    |
# +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
# | Book       | 20        | 5         | 0         | 0         | 10        | 0         | 0         |
# | Glasses    | 0         | 0         | 0         | 0         | 5         | 0         | 0         |
# | Phone      | 0         | 0         | 5         | 1         | 0         | 0         | 10        |
# | T-Shirt    | 0         | 0         | 0         | 0         | 0         | 0         | 0         |
# +------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
# Explanation:
# On Monday (2020-06-01, 2020-06-08) were sold a total of 20 units (10 + 10) in the category Book (ids: 1, 2).
# On Tuesday (2020-06-02) were sold a total of 5 units in the category Book (ids: 1, 2).
# On Wednesday (2020-06-03) were sold a total of 5 units in the category Phone (ids: 3, 4).
# On Thursday (2020-06-04) were sold a total of 1 unit in the category Phone (ids: 3, 4).
# On Friday (2020-06-05) were sold 10 units in the category Book (ids: 1, 2) and 5 units in Glasses (ids: 5).
# On Saturday there are no items sold.
# On Sunday (2020-06-14, 2020-06-21) were sold a total of 10 units (5 +5) in the category Phone (ids: 3, 4).
# There are no sales of T-shirts.

import pandas as pd

def sales_by_day(orders: pd.DataFrame, items: pd.DataFrame) -> pd.DataFrame:
  merged = orders.merge(items, on='item_id')
  merged['order_date'] = pd.to_datetime(merged['order_date'])
  merged['day'] = merged['order_date'].dt.day_name()
  days = ['Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday', 'Sunday']
  pivot = merged.pivot_table(index='item_category', columns='day', values='quantity', aggfunc='sum', fill_value=0)
  for d in days:
    if d not in pivot.columns:
      pivot[d] = 0
  pivot = pivot[days]
  # Include all categories
  all_cats = items['item_category'].unique()
  pivot = pivot.reindex(all_cats, fill_value=0)
  pivot = pivot.reset_index().rename(columns={'item_category': 'Category'})
  return pivot.sort_values('Category')