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task Sessions & sequences · hard

Sessionize retries and exact boundaries

Assign each canonical website event a session_no for its shopper. Return shopper_id, event_id and session_no, in shopper and event order.

what to return

Columns
shopper_idevent_idsession_no in this order
Rows
36 rows · in the order asked
Watch for
Deduplicate globally by event_key, keeping the smallest id; a retry may have a conflicting payload.
Use (occurred_at, id) as the total event order; equal timestamps follow id order. All times are UTC.
A shopper starts a session at the first canonical event or after a gap strictly greater than 30 minutes from their previous canonical event. Exactly 30 minutes stays in the same session; midnight alone does not split it.
Session numbers start at 1 per shopper and include every event type, including heartbeat and purchase-only sessions.
Order by shopper_id, occurred_at, id; occurred_at is only a sort key, not an output column.
Skill
Build stable session identifiers from canonical events and inactivity gaps. Refresher: Sessionize an event stream →

expected result

Your query should return exactly these columns and values. Run it and compare.

expected result36 rows · in this order
shopper_idevent_idsession_no
111
121
131

first 3 of 36 rows

data you can query

Sample rows from each table. Each column shows its type underneath; → marks a link to another table.

market_web_events7 columns · 38 rows
idinteger · keyevent_keytextshopper_idinteger → shoppersoccurred_attextevent_typetextchanneltextcart_idtext
1a112025-05-01 09:00:00viewemailA
2a212025-05-01 09:05:00checkoutdirectA
3a312025-05-01 09:10:00purchasedirectA
4a312025-05-01 09:10:00purchasedirectA
5b112025-05-01 10:00:00viewsearchB

showing 5 of 38 rows

solution.sql
 

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