ChallengeFinanceSQL+20 XP

Data Analytics case 21: SQL totals for Finance

Scenario

You are a data professional. A community bank has an issue: the board asks for the total amount across all regions. As a Data Analyst, you are tasked to solve it.

Question

Write a SQL query that adds up every value.

Your task

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Deliverable: One total for the board
On success it is published as its own portfolio project

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Data Analytics · Problem Solving & Root Cause Analysis — question 21 of 30

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1. Choose your dataset

Pick an industry and a size. Your code and results change to match.

IndustrySize

sql editorpayments

Snippets

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🌈 In short — no coding words

📂 Opens the "payments" table→✅ Shows you the answer

Altogether: this query reads your industry table, picks what you need, and shows the answer as rows.

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Dataset & schema

payments

IndustryDataset size

The tiny starter data. Bigger data scrolls.

Fields

payment_id	region	amount
P1	North	500
P2	South	200
P3	North	900
P4	East	300

Finance data only.

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▶ Output terminal

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Your next steps

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Uses SUM
Reads the table