Department Running Totals

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Domain

SQL

Difficulty

medium

Seniority

L5

Problem

Ahead of the annual budget cycle, the CFO wants to see how each department's metric values accumulate quarter over quarter. Return every metric record with an additional column showing the running total of metric_value within each department, sequenced by fiscal year and quarter.

Summary

Compute cumulative metric values within each department using window operations.

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