#1479
Hard Database Sales by day of the week
Database
76.3% acceptance
Mar 31, 2026
159
39
No description available.
Solution
Pandas
Time O(n)
Space O(1)
# 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')