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Most decorated athlete per region

Your goal for this exercise is to show the most decorated athlete per region. To set up this report, you need to leverage the ROW_NUMBER() window function, which numbers each row as an incremental integer, where the first row is 1, the second is 2, and so on.

Syntax for this window function is ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY field ORDER BY field). Notice how there is no argument within the initial function.

When set up correctly, a row_num = 1 represents the most decorated athlete within that region. Note that you cannot use a window calculation within a HAVING or WHERE statement, so you will need to use a subquery to filter.

Feel free to reference the E:R Diagram. We will use summer_games_clean to avoid null handling.

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  • Build a query that pulls region, athlete_name, and total_golds by joining summer_games_clean, athletes, and countries.
  • Add a field called row_num that uses ROW_NUMBER() to assign a regional rank to each athlete based on total golds won.