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SQL practice question · Hard · Analytics · Facebook

member_activity has one row per user and active month (user_id, activity_month), where activity_month is the first day of the month ('YYYY-MM-01'); duplicates are possible. A reactivation is a month in which the user is active, the user was NOT active in the immediately preceding calendar month, and the user was active in some earlier month (a user's first active month is not a reactivation). Return every reactivation. Output columns: user_id, reactivation_month. Order by user_id, then reactivation_month.

Table: member_activity

Schema of member_activity
ColumnType
user_idINTEGER
activity_monthDATE
Sample rows of member_activity
user_idactivity_month
12026-01-01
12026-03-01
22026-01-01
22026-02-01
32026-03-01
Expected output on the sample data
user_idreactivation_month
12026-03-01

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