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Moving total of countries' medals

What if your data is split into multiple groups spread over one or more columns in the table? Even with a defined frame, if you can't somehow separate the groups' data, one group's values will affect the average of another group's values.

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PostgreSQL Summary Stats and Window Functions

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Exercise instructions

  • Calculate the 3-year moving sum of medals earned per country.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

WITH Country_Medals AS (
  SELECT
    Year, Country, COUNT(*) AS Medals
  FROM Summer_Medals
  GROUP BY Year, Country)

SELECT
  Year, Country, Medals,
  -- Calculate each country's 3-game moving total
  ___ OVER
    (PARTITION BY ___
     ORDER BY Year ASC
     ROWS BETWEEN
     ___ AND ___) AS Medals_MA
FROM Country_Medals
ORDER BY Country ASC, Year ASC;
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