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SQL for Data Analytics - Third Edition

By : Jun Shan, Matt Goldwasser, Upom Malik, Benjamin Johnston
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SQL for Data Analytics - Third Edition

By: Jun Shan, Matt Goldwasser, Upom Malik, Benjamin Johnston

Overview of this book

Every day, businesses operate around the clock, and a huge amount of data is generated at a rapid pace. This book helps you analyze this data and identify key patterns and behaviors that can help you and your business understand your customers at a deep, fundamental level. SQL for Data Analytics, Third Edition is a great way to get started with data analysis, showing how to effectively sort and process information from raw data, even without any prior experience. You will begin by learning how to form hypotheses and generate descriptive statistics that can provide key insights into your existing data. As you progress, you will learn how to write SQL queries to aggregate, calculate, and combine SQL data from sources outside of your current dataset. You will also discover how to work with advanced data types, like JSON. By exploring advanced techniques, such as geospatial analysis and text analysis, you will be able to understand your business at a deeper level. Finally, the book lets you in on the secret to getting information faster and more effectively by using advanced techniques like profiling and automation. By the end of this book, you will be proficient in the efficient application of SQL techniques in everyday business scenarios and looking at data with the critical eye of analytics professional.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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9. Using SQL to Uncover the Truth: A Case Study

7. Analytics Using Complex Data Types 

Activity 7.01: Sales Search and Analysis

Solution:

  1. First, create the materialized view on the customer_sales table. If a view with the same name already exists but is not up to date, execute the DROP IF EXISTS statement prior to the CREATE statement:
    DROP MATERIALIZED VIEW IF EXISTS customer_search;
    CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW customer_search AS ( 
      SELECT
        customer_json -> 'customer_id' AS customer_id, 
        customer_json,
        to_tsvector('english', customer_json) AS search_vector 
      FROM 
        customer_sales
    );

This gives you a table of the following format (output shortened for readability):

SELECT * FROM customer_search LIMIT 1;

The following is the output of the code. Note that the output cells are too large to fit onto a screen so only the first few words are shown in the screenshot:

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