SQL - Cumulative Lab

Introduction

In this lesson, we'll run through some practice questions to reinforce your knowledge of SQL queries.

Objectives

You will be able to:

• Practice interpreting "word problems" and translating them into SQL queries
• Practice deciding and performing whichever type of JOIN is best for retrieving desired data
• Practice using GROUP BY statements in SQL to apply aggregate functions like COUNT, MAX, MIN, and SUM
• Practice using the HAVING clause to compare different aggregates
• Practice writing subqueries to decompose complex queries

Your Task: Querying a Customer Database

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Business Understanding

Your employer makes miniature models of products such as classic cars, motorcycles, and planes. They want you to pull several reports on different segments of their past customers, in order to better understand past sales as well as determine which customers will receive promotional material.

Data Understanding

You may remember this database from a previous lab. As a refresher, here's the ERD diagram for this database:

The queries you are asked to write will become more complex over the course of the lab.

Getting Started

As in previous labs, we'll make use of the sqlite3 library as well as pandas. By combining them, we'll be able to write queries as Python strings, then display the results in a conveniently-formatted table.

Note: Throughout this lesson, the only thing you will need to change is the content of the strings containing SQL queries. You do NOT need to modify any of the code relating to pandas; this is just to help make the output more readable.

In the cell below, we:

• Import the necessary libraries, pandas and sqlite3
• Establish a connection to the database data.sqlite, called conn

# Run this cell without changes
import sqlite3
import pandas as pd

conn = sqlite3.Connection("data.sqlite")

The basic structure of a query in this lab is:

• Write the SQL query inside of the Python string
• Use pd.read_sql to display the results of the query in a formatted table

For example, if we wanted to select a list of all product lines from the company, that would look like this:

# Run this cell without changes
q0 = """
SELECT productline
FROM productlines
;
"""

pd.read_sql(q0, conn)

From now on, you will replace None within these Python strings with the actual SQL query code.

Part 1: Basic Queries

First, let's review some basic SQL queries, which do not require any joining, aggregation, or subqueries.

Query 1: Customers with Credit Over 25,000 in California

Write a query that gets the contact first name, contact last name, phone number, address line 1, and credit limit for all customers in California with a credit limit greater than 25000.00.

(California means that the state value is 'CA'.)

Expected Output

# Replace None with appropriate SQL code
q1 = """
None
;
"""

q1_result = pd.read_sql(q1, conn)
q1_result

The following code checks that your result is correct:

# Run this cell without changes

# Testing which columns are returned
assert list(q1_result.columns) == ['contactFirstName', 'contactLastName', 'phone', 'addressLine1', 'creditLimit']

# Testing how many rows are returned
assert len(q1_result) == 10

# Testing the values in the first result
assert list(q1_result.iloc[0]) == ['Susan', 'Nelson', '4155551450', '5677 Strong St.', 210500]

Query 2: Customers Outside of the USA with "Collect" in Their Name

Write a query that gets the customer name, state, and country, for all customers outside of the USA with "Collect" as part of their customer name.

We are looking for customers with names like "Australian Collectors, Co." or "BG&E Collectables", where country is not "USA".

Expected Output

# Replace None with appropriate SQL code
q2 = """
None
;
"""

q2_result = pd.read_sql(q2, conn)
q2_result

The following code checks that your result is correct:

# Run this cell without changes

# Testing which columns are returned
assert list(q2_result.columns) == ['customerName', 'state', 'country']

# Testing how many rows are returned
assert len(q2_result) == 15

# Testing the values in the first result
assert list(q2_result.iloc[0]) == ['Australian Collectors, Co.', 'Victoria', 'Australia']

Query 3: Customers without Null States

Write a query that gets the full address (line 1, line 2, city, state, postal code, country) for all customers where the state field is not null.

Here we'll only display the first 10 results.

Expected Output

# Replace None with appropriate SQL code
q3 = """
None
;
"""

q3_result = pd.read_sql(q3, conn)
q3_result.head(10)

The following code checks that your result is correct:

# Run this cell without changes

# Testing which columns are returned
assert list(q3_result.columns) == ['addressLine1', 'addressLine2', 'city', 'state', 'postalCode', 'country']

# Testing how many rows are returned
assert len(q3_result) == 49

# Testing the values in the first result
assert list(q3_result.iloc[0]) == ['8489 Strong St.', '', 'Las Vegas', 'NV', '83030', 'USA']

You have now completed all of the basic queries!

Part 2: Aggregate and Join Queries

Query 4: Average Credit Limit by State in USA

Write a query that gets the average credit limit per state in the USA.

The two fields selected should be state and average_credit_limit, which is the average of the creditLimit field for that state.

Expected Output

# Replace None with appropriate SQL code
q4 = """
None
;
"""

q4_result = pd.read_sql(q4, conn)
q4_result

The following code checks that your result is correct:

# Run this cell without changes

# Testing which columns are returned
assert list(q4_result.columns) == ['state', 'average_credit_limit']

# Testing how many rows are returned
assert len(q4_result) == 8

# Testing the values in the first result
first_result_list = list(q4_result.iloc[0])
assert first_result_list[0] == 'CA' 
assert round(first_result_list[1], 3) == round(83854.54545454546, 3)

Query 5: Joining Customers and Orders

Write a query that uses JOIN statements to get the customer name, order number, and status for all orders. For this example, stick to a simple join and avoid using sub-queries.

• To ensure that your results will pass, make sure your output resembles the image below, including the order of the column names.

• Refer to the ERD above to understand which tables contain these pieces of information, and the relationship between these tables.

Expected Output

# Replace None with appropriate SQL code
q5 = """
None
;
"""
q5_result = pd.read_sql(q5, conn)
q5_result.head(15)

The following code checks that your result is correct:

# Run this cell without changes

# Testing which columns are returned
assert list(q5_result.columns) == ['customerName', 'orderNumber', 'status']

# Testing how many rows are returned
assert len(q5_result) == 326

# Testing the values in the first result
assert list(q5_result.iloc[0]) == ['Atelier graphique', 10123, 'Shipped']

Query 6: Total Payments

Write a query that uses JOIN statements to get top 10 customers in terms of total payment amount. Find the customer name, customer number, and sum of all payments made. The results should be ordered by the sum of payments made, starting from the highest value.

The three columns selected should be customerName, customerNumber and total_payment_amount.

Expected Output

# Replace None with appropriate SQL code
q6 = """
None
;
"""
q6_result = pd.read_sql(q6, conn)
q6_result

The following code checks that your result is correct:

# Run this cell without changes

# Testing which columns are returned
assert list(q6_result.columns) == ['customerName', 'customerNumber', 'total_payment_amount']

# Testing how many rows are returned
assert len(q6_result) == 10

# Testing the values in the first result
assert list(q6_result.iloc[0]) == ['Euro+ Shopping Channel', 141, 715738.98]

Query 7: Products that Have Been Purchased 10 or More Times

Write a query that, for each customer, finds all of the products that they have purchased 10 or more times cumulatively. For each record, return the customer name, customer number, product name, product code, and total number ordered. Sort the rows in ascending order by the quantity ordered.

The five columns selected should be customerName, customerNumber, productName, productCode, and total_ordered, where total_ordered is the sum of all quantities of that product ordered by that customer.

Hint: For this one, you'll need to make use of HAVING, GROUP BY, and ORDER BY — make sure you get the order of them correct!

Expected Output

# Replace None with approprite SQL code
q7 = """
None
;
"""
q7_result = pd.read_sql(q7, conn)
q7_result

The following code checks that your result is correct:

# Run this cell without changes

# Testing which columns are returned
assert list(q7_result.columns) == ['customerName', 'customerNumber', 'productName', 'productCode', 'total_ordered']

# Testing how many rows are returned
assert len(q7_result) == 2531

# Testing the values in the first result
assert list(q7_result.iloc[0]) == ['Petit Auto', 314, '1913 Ford Model T Speedster', 'S18_2949', 10]

Query 8: Employees in Offices with Fewer than Five Employees

Finally, get the last name, first name, employee number, and office code for employees from offices with fewer than 5 employees.

Hint: Use a subquery to find the relevant offices.

Expected Output

# Replace None with approprite SQL code
q8 = """
None
;
"""
q8_result = pd.read_sql(q8, conn)
q8_result

The following code checks that your result is correct:

# Run this cell without changes

# Testing which columns are returned
assert list(q8_result.columns) == ['lastName', 'firstName', 'employeeNumber', 'officeCode']

# Testing how many rows are returned
assert len(q8_result) == 12

# Testing the values in the first result
assert list(q8_result.iloc[0]) == ['Patterson', 'William', 1088, 6]

Now that we are finished writing queries, close the connection to the database:

# Run this cell without changes
conn.close()

Summary

In this lesson, we produced several data queries for a model car company, mainly focused around its customer data. Along the way, we reviewed many of the major concepts and keywords associated with SQL SELECT queries: FROM, WHERE, GROUP BY, HAVING, ORDER BY, JOIN, SUM, COUNT, and AVG.