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assignment-two - What to submit for this assignment:
- This markdown (Assignment2.md) with written responses in Section 1 and 4
- Two Entity-Relationship Diagrams (preferably in a pdf, jpeg, png format).
- One .sql file
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You can start this section following session 1, but you may want to wait until you feel comfortable wtih basic SQL query writing.
Steps to complete this part of the assignment:
- Design a logical data model
- Duplicate the logical data model and add another table to it following the instructions
- Write, within this markdown file, an answer to Prompt 3
Design a logical model for a small bookstore. 📚
At the minimum it should have employee, order, sales, customer, and book entities (tables). Determine sensible column and table design based on what you know about these concepts. Keep it simple, but work out sensible relationships to keep tables reasonably sized.
Additionally, include a date table.
There are several tools online you can use, I'd recommend Draw.io or LucidChart.
HINT: You do not need to create any data for this prompt. This is a conceptual model only.
We want to create employee shifts, splitting up the day into morning and evening. Add this to the ERD.
The store wants to keep customer addresses. Propose two architectures for the CUSTOMER_ADDRESS table, one that will retain changes, and another that will overwrite. Which is type 1, which is type 2?
HINT: search type 1 vs type 2 slowly changing dimensions.
Your answer...
You can start this section following session 4.
Steps to complete this part of the assignment:
- Open the assignment2.sql file in DB Browser for SQLite:
- from Github
- or, from your local forked repository
- Complete each question
- Our favourite manager wants a detailed long list of products, but is afraid of tables! We tell them, no problem! We can produce a list with all of the appropriate details.
Using the following syntax you create our super cool and not at all needy manager a list:
SELECT
product_name || ', ' || product_size|| ' (' || product_qty_type || ')'
FROM product
But wait! The product table has some bad data (a few NULL values). Find the NULLs and then using COALESCE, replace the NULL with a blank for the first problem, and 'unit' for the second problem.
HINT: keep the syntax the same, but edited the correct components with the string. The || values concatenate the columns into strings. Edit the appropriate columns -- you're making two edits -- and the NULL rows will be fixed. All the other rows will remain the same.
- Write a query that selects from the customer_purchases table and numbers each customer’s visits to the farmer’s market (labeling each market date with a different number). Each customer’s first visit is labeled 1, second visit is labeled 2, etc.
You can either display all rows in the customer_purchases table, with the counter changing on each new market date for each customer, or select only the unique market dates per customer (without purchase details) and number those visits.
HINT: One of these approaches uses ROW_NUMBER() and one uses DENSE_RANK().
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Reverse the numbering of the query from a part so each customer’s most recent visit is labeled 1, then write another query that uses this one as a subquery (or temp table) and filters the results to only the customer’s most recent visit.
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Using a COUNT() window function, include a value along with each row of the customer_purchases table that indicates how many different times that customer has purchased that product_id.
- Some product names in the product table have descriptions like "Jar" or "Organic". These are separated from the product name with a hyphen. Create a column using SUBSTR (and a couple of other commands) that captures these, but is otherwise NULL. Remove any trailing or leading whitespaces. Don't just use a case statement for each product!
| product_name | description |
|---|---|
| Habanero Peppers - Organic | Organic |
HINT: you might need to use INSTR(product_name,'-') to find the hyphens. INSTR will help split the column.
- Using a UNION, write a query that displays the market dates with the highest and lowest total sales.
HINT: There are a possibly a few ways to do this query, but if you're struggling, try the following: 1) Create a CTE/Temp Table to find sales values grouped dates; 2) Create another CTE/Temp table with a rank windowed function on the previous query to create "best day" and "worst day"; 3) Query the second temp table twice, once for the best day, once for the worst day, with a UNION binding them.
You can start this section following session 5.
Steps to complete this part of the assignment:
- Open the assignment2.sql file in DB Browser for SQLite:
- from Github
- or, from your local forked repository
- Complete each question
- Suppose every vendor in the
vendor_inventorytable had 5 of each of their products to sell to every customer on record. How much money would each vendor make per product? Show this by vendor_name and product name, rather than using the IDs.
HINT: Be sure you select only relevant columns and rows. Remember, CROSS JOIN will explode your table rows, so CROSS JOIN should likely be a subquery. Think a bit about the row counts: how many distinct vendors, product names are there (x)? How many customers are there (y). Before your final group by you should have the product of those two queries (x*y).
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Create a new table "product_units". This table will contain only products where the
product_qty_type = 'unit'. It should use all of the columns from the product table, as well as a new column for theCURRENT_TIMESTAMP. Name the timestamp columnsnapshot_timestamp. -
Using
INSERT, add a new row to the product_unit table (with an updated timestamp). This can be any product you desire (e.g. add another record for Apple Pie).
- Delete the older record for the whatever product you added.
HINT: If you don't specify a WHERE clause, you are going to have a bad time.
- We want to add the current_quantity to the product_units table. First, add a new column,
current_quantityto the table using the following syntax.
ALTER TABLE product_units
ADD current_quantity INT;
Then, using UPDATE, change the current_quantity equal to the last quantity value from the vendor_inventory details.
HINT: This one is pretty hard. First, determine how to get the "last" quantity per product. Second, coalesce null values to 0 (if you don't have null values, figure out how to rearrange your query so you do.) Third, SET current_quantity = (...your select statement...), remembering that WHERE can only accommodate one column. Finally, make sure you have a WHERE statement to update the right row, you'll need to use product_units.product_id to refer to the correct row within the product_units table. When you have all of these components, you can run the update statement.
You can start this section anytime.
Steps to complete this part of the assignment:
- Read the article
- Write, within this markdown file, <1000 words.
Read: Boykis, V. (2019, October 16). Neural nets are just people all the way down. Normcore Tech.
https://vicki.substack.com/p/neural-nets-are-just-people-all-the
What are the ethical issues important to this story?
Consider, for example, concepts of labour, bias, LLM proliferation, moderating content, intersection of technology and society, ect.
Your thoughts...