Running totals of athlete medals
The running total (or cumulative sum) of a column helps you determine what each row's contribution is to the total sum.
This exercise is part of the course
PostgreSQL Summary Stats and Window Functions
Exercise instructions
- Return the athletes, the number of medals they earned, and the medals running total, ordered by the athletes' names in alphabetical order.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
WITH Athlete_Medals AS (
SELECT
Athlete, COUNT(*) AS Medals
FROM Summer_Medals
WHERE
Country = 'USA' AND Medal = 'Gold'
AND Year >= 2000
GROUP BY Athlete)
SELECT
-- Calculate the running total of athlete medals
___,
___,
___ OVER (ORDER BY ___ ASC) AS Max_Medals
FROM Athlete_Medals
ORDER BY Athlete ASC;