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SQL practice question · Hard · Analytics · Facebook

member_activity has one row per user activity (user_id, activity_date); a user can have several rows on the same day. For every date that has activity, except the latest date in the table (its next day is not observed yet), compute the next-day retention: the percentage of distinct users active on that date who are also active on the following calendar day (0 if nobody returns). Output columns: activity_date, retention_pct (rounded to 2 decimals). Order by activity_date ascending.

Table: member_activity

Schema of member_activity
ColumnType
user_idINTEGER
activity_dateDATE
Sample rows of member_activity
user_idactivity_date
12026-01-01
12026-01-02
22026-01-01
32026-01-01
32026-01-03
42026-01-02
42026-01-03
Expected output on the sample data
activity_dateretention_pct
2026-01-0133.33
2026-01-0250

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