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Moving maximum of Chinese athletes' medals

Frames allow you to "peek" forwards or backward without first using the relative fetching functions, LAG and LEAD, to fetch previous rows' values into the current row.

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PostgreSQL Summary Stats and Window Functions

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Exercise instructions

  • Return the athletes, medals earned, and the maximum medals earned, comparing only the last two and current athletes, ordering by athletes' names in alphabetical order.

Hands-on interactive exercise

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

WITH Chinese_Medals AS (
  SELECT
    Athlete, COUNT(*) AS Medals
  FROM Summer_Medals
  WHERE
    Country = 'CHN' AND Medal = 'Gold'
    AND Year >= 2000
  GROUP BY Athlete)

SELECT
  -- Select the athletes and the medals they've earned
  ___,
  ___,
  -- Get the max of the last two and current rows' medals 
  ___ OVER (ORDER BY ___ ASC
            ROWS BETWEEN ___
            AND ___) AS Max_Medals
FROM Chinese_Medals
ORDER BY Athlete ASC;
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