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1596. The Most Frequently Ordered Products for Each Customer

Description

Table: Customers

+---------------+---------+
| Column Name   | Type    |
+---------------+---------+
| customer_id   | int     |
| name          | varchar |
+---------------+---------+
customer_id is the column with unique values for this table.
This table contains information about the customers.

 

Table: Orders

+---------------+---------+
| Column Name   | Type    |
+---------------+---------+
| order_id      | int     |
| order_date    | date    |
| customer_id   | int     |
| product_id    | int     |
+---------------+---------+
order_id is the column with unique values for this table.
This table contains information about the orders made by customer_id.
No customer will order the same product more than once in a single day.

 

Table: Products

+---------------+---------+
| Column Name   | Type    |
+---------------+---------+
| product_id    | int     |
| product_name  | varchar |
| price         | int     |
+---------------+---------+
product_id is the column with unique values for this table.
This table contains information about the products.

 

Write a solution to find the most frequently ordered product(s) for each customer.

The result table should have the product_id and product_name for each customer_id who ordered at least one order.

Return the result table in any order.

The result format is in the following example.

 

Example 1:

Input: 
Customers table:
+-------------+-------+
| customer_id | name  |
+-------------+-------+
| 1           | Alice |
| 2           | Bob   |
| 3           | Tom   |
| 4           | Jerry |
| 5           | John  |
+-------------+-------+
Orders table:
+----------+------------+-------------+------------+
| order_id | order_date | customer_id | product_id |
+----------+------------+-------------+------------+
| 1        | 2020-07-31 | 1           | 1          |
| 2        | 2020-07-30 | 2           | 2          |
| 3        | 2020-08-29 | 3           | 3          |
| 4        | 2020-07-29 | 4           | 1          |
| 5        | 2020-06-10 | 1           | 2          |
| 6        | 2020-08-01 | 2           | 1          |
| 7        | 2020-08-01 | 3           | 3          |
| 8        | 2020-08-03 | 1           | 2          |
| 9        | 2020-08-07 | 2           | 3          |
| 10       | 2020-07-15 | 1           | 2          |
+----------+------------+-------------+------------+
Products table:
+------------+--------------+-------+
| product_id | product_name | price |
+------------+--------------+-------+
| 1          | keyboard     | 120   |
| 2          | mouse        | 80    |
| 3          | screen       | 600   |
| 4          | hard disk    | 450   |
+------------+--------------+-------+
Output: 
+-------------+------------+--------------+
| customer_id | product_id | product_name |
+-------------+------------+--------------+
| 1           | 2          | mouse        |
| 2           | 1          | keyboard     |
| 2           | 2          | mouse        |
| 2           | 3          | screen       |
| 3           | 3          | screen       |
| 4           | 1          | keyboard     |
+-------------+------------+--------------+
Explanation: 
Alice (customer 1) ordered the mouse three times and the keyboard one time, so the mouse is the most frequently ordered product for them.
Bob (customer 2) ordered the keyboard, the mouse, and the screen one time, so those are the most frequently ordered products for them.
Tom (customer 3) only ordered the screen (two times), so that is the most frequently ordered product for them.
Jerry (customer 4) only ordered the keyboard (one time), so that is the most frequently ordered product for them.
John (customer 5) did not order anything, so we do not include them in the result table.

Solutions

Solution 1: Group By + Window Function

We group the Orders table by customer_id and product_id, and then use the window function rank(), which assigns a rank to each product_id in each customer_id group based on its frequency in descending order. Finally, we select the product_id with a rank of $1$ for each customer_id, which is the most frequently ordered product for that customer_id.

COUNT(b.order_id) OVER(PARTITION BY a.customer_id, b.product_id) AS freq

group by VS partition over

A group by normally reduces the number of rows returned by rolling them up and calculating averages or sums for each row.

partition by does not affect the number of rows returned, but it changes how a window function’s result is calculated.

  • # Write your MySQL query statement below
    
    -- solution-1
    
    SELECT customer_id, T.product_id, product_name
    FROM(
        SELECT customer_id, product_id,
        RANK() OVER( PARTITION BY customer_id ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC ) AS RK
        FROM Orders o
        GROUP BY customer_id, product_id
    ) T
    LEFT JOIN Products p on p.product_id = T.product_id
    WHERE RK=1
    
    
    -- solution-2
    
    WITH
    
    tmp AS (
      SELECT a.customer_id, b.product_id, c.product_name,
      COUNT(b.order_id) OVER(PARTITION BY a.customer_id, b.product_id) AS freq
      FROM Customers AS a
      JOIN Orders AS b
      ON a.customer_id = b.customer_id
      JOIN Products AS c
      ON b.product_id = c.product_id
    ),
    
    tmp1 AS (
      SELECT customer_id, product_id, product_name, freq,
      DENSE_RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY customer_id ORDER BY freq DESC) AS rnk
      FROM tmp
    )
    
    SELECT DISTINCT customer_id, product_id, product_name FROM tmp1
    WHERE rnk = 1;
    
    

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