SQL Exercise: Find largest number of orders booked by the customer

SQL Formatting Output: Exercise-9 with Solution

From the following table, write a SQL query that counts the unique orders and the highest purchase amount for each customer. Sort the result-set in descending order on 2nd field. Return customer ID, number of distinct orders and highest purchase amount by each customer.

Sample table: orders

ord_no      purch_amt   ord_date    customer_id  salesman_id
----------  ----------  ----------  -----------  -----------
70001       150.5       2012-10-05  3005         5002
70009       270.65      2012-09-10  3001         5005
70002       65.26       2012-10-05  3002         5001
70004       110.5       2012-08-17  3009         5003
70007       948.5       2012-09-10  3005         5002
70005       2400.6      2012-07-27  3007         5001
70008       5760        2012-09-10  3002         5001
70010       1983.43     2012-10-10  3004         5006
70003       2480.4      2012-10-10  3009         5003
70012       250.45      2012-06-27  3008         5002
70011       75.29       2012-08-17  3003         5007
70013       3045.6      2012-04-25  3002         5001

Sample Solution:

-- This query selects specific columns ('customer_id', the count of distinct 'ord_no', and the maximum 'purch_amt') from the 'orders' table.
-- It groups the result set by 'customer_id', counts the distinct 'ord_no' for each group, and finds the maximum 'purch_amt'.
-- Finally, it orders the result set by the second column (count of distinct 'ord_no') in descending order.
SELECT customer_id, COUNT(DISTINCT ord_no), MAX(purch_amt)
-- Specifies the table from which to retrieve the data (in this case, 'orders').
FROM orders
-- Groups the result set by 'customer_id', counting the distinct 'ord_no' for each group.
GROUP BY customer_id
-- Orders the result set by the second column (count of distinct 'ord_no') in descending order.
ORDER BY 2 DESC;

Output of the Query:

customer_id	count		max
3002		3		5760.00
3009		2		2480.40
3005		2		948.50
3004		1		1983.43
3001		1		270.65
3007		1		2400.60
3008		1		250.45
3003		1		75.29

Code Explanation:

The said query in SQL that retrieves the customer id, count of distinct order numbers, and maximum purchase amount from the 'orders' table.
It is ordered by the number of distinct order numbers in descending order and grouped by the "customer_id" column within the result set.
This query returns the customer with the highest number of unique orders first and shows their customer id, the count of their unique orders, and the maximum amount spent on a single order.

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