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Domain

SQL

Difficulty

medium

Seniority

L5

Problem

Our infrastructure inventory uses hostnames that share prefixes. Count unique hostnames per region, using only the first word of the hostname (case insensitive), so entries like 'web-server-01' and 'Web-server-02' share the same prefix. If reversed forms exist (like 'prod-db' and 'db-prod'), count them as the same. Return results by count descending, then region ascending.

Summary

How many distinct machines live in each region?

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