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Domain

SQL

Difficulty

medium

Problem

Data science wants to model spending trends per user over time. For every row in transactions, pull that user's previous transaction amount (by transaction_date) onto the same row, leaving the value empty on a user's first transaction. Return the user_id, total_amount, transaction_date, and the previous amount.

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