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Transactions per day

It's time for you to do some temporal EDA on the BikeShare dataset. Write a query to determine how many transactions exist per day.

Sometimes datasets have multiple sources and this query can help you understand if you are missing data.

This exercise is part of the course

Writing Functions and Stored Procedures in SQL Server

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Exercise instructions

  • Use CONVERT() to SELECT and GROUP BY the date portion of the StartDate.
  • Use COUNT() to measure how many records exist for each StartDate.
  • Sort the results by the date portion of StartDate.

Hands-on interactive exercise

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

SELECT
  -- Select the date portion of StartDate
  ___(___, StartDate) as StartDate,
  -- Measure how many records exist for each StartDate
  ___(___) as CountOfRows 
FROM CapitalBikeShare 
-- Group by the date portion of StartDate
___ BY ___(___, StartDate)
-- Sort the results by the date portion of StartDate
___ BY ___(___, StartDate);
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