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SQL • LESSON 182

Aggregation Layer

How can we build a customer summary aggregation table for reporting marts?

Advanced3 Minutes1950 XP
🤔 THE QUESTION

How can we build a customer summary aggregation table for reporting marts?

💡 WHAT IS IT?

Aggregating clean completed orders generates Gold-layer customer metric dimensional marts.

🎯 WHAT IS IT USED FOR?

Gold mart creation, executive customer dashboards, business intelligence summary tables.

💻 EXAMPLE
SELECT
customer_id,
SUM(amount) AS total_spend,
COUNT(*) AS order_count
FROM source_orders
WHERE status = 'Completed'
GROUP BY customer_id;

🎯 Mission Objectives

Practice typing production-grade SQL code for Aggregation Layer.

  • Gold dimensional mart
  • Customer spend rollup
  • Aggregated metrics layer
  • Warehouse modeling