SQL LeetCode: 534. Game Play Analysis III

Pallavi Mirajkar Dantkale
2 min readApr 5, 2021

534. Game Play Analysis III

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Table: Activity

+--------------+---------+
| Column Name | Type |
+--------------+---------+
| player_id | int |
| device_id | int |
| event_date | date |
| games_played | int |
+--------------+---------+
(player_id, event_date) is the primary key of this table.
This table shows the activity of players of some game.
Each row is a record of a player who logged in and played a number of games (possibly 0) before logging out on some day using some device.

Write an SQL query that reports for each player and date, how many games played so far by the player. That is, the total number of games played by the player until that date. Check the example for clarity.

The query result format is in the following example:

Activity table:
+-----------+-----------+------------+--------------+
| player_id | device_id | event_date | games_played |
+-----------+-----------+------------+--------------+
| 1 | 2 | 2016-03-01 | 5 |
| 1 | 2 | 2016-05-02 | 6 |
| 1 | 3 | 2017-06-25 | 1 |
| 3 | 1 | 2016-03-02 | 0 |
| 3 | 4 | 2018-07-03 | 5 |
+-----------+-----------+------------+--------------+
Result table:
+-----------+------------+---------------------+
| player_id | event_date | games_played_so_far |
+-----------+------------+---------------------+
| 1 | 2016-03-01 | 5 |
| 1 | 2016-05-02 | 11 |
| 1 | 2017-06-25 | 12 |
| 3 | 2016-03-02 | 0 |
| 3 | 2018-07-03 | 5 |
+-----------+------------+---------------------+
For the player with id 1, 5 + 6 = 11 games played by 2016-05-02, and 5 + 6 + 1 = 12 games played by 2017-06-25.
For the player with id 3, 0 + 5 = 5 games played by 2018-07-03.
Note that for each player we only care about the days when the player logged in.
  1. Using Window function.

SELECT
player_id,
event_date,
sum(games_played) OVER (partition by player_id order by event_date) as games_played_so_far
FROM
Activity

2. Using Self join

select a.player_id, a.event_date, sum(b.games_played) as games_played_so_far
from activity a join activity b
on a.player_id = b.player_id
where a.event_date >= b.event_date
group by a.player_id, a.event_date
order by a.player_id;

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Pallavi Mirajkar Dantkale

QA Engineer / Data Analyst — Highly committed to Quality Assurance and data analysis, advocate for quality and add the right value to the organization.