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A data professional wants to identify all customers who made a purchase in January. Given the following table: Which of the following types of functions should the professional use to flag the…

The correct answer is B. Logical. To identify customers who made a purchase in January, a data professional should use logical functions. While date functions can extract the month, logical functions are essential for comparing that extracted month to a specific value like 'January'.

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Question

A data professional wants to identify all customers who made a purchase in January. Given the following table:

Which of the following types of functions should the professional use to flag the customers?

Options

  • AStatistical
  • BLogical
  • CMathematical
  • DDate

How the community answered

(16 responses)
  • B
    94% (15)
  • D
    6% (1)

Why each option

To identify customers who made a purchase in January, a data professional should use logical functions. While date functions can extract the month, logical functions are essential for comparing that extracted month to a specific value like 'January'.

AStatistical

Statistical functions are used for calculations like averages, sums, counts, or standard deviations, not for directly identifying records based on a specific month.

BLogicalCorrect

Logical functions (e.g., IF, AND, OR, WHERE clauses with comparison operators) are used to evaluate conditions and return a boolean result or filter data based on criteria. To flag customers who purchased in January, one would typically use a logical condition like MONTH(PurchaseDate) = 1.

CMathematical

Mathematical functions perform arithmetic operations (e.g., addition, subtraction, multiplication), which are not directly used to identify records based on a month condition.

DDate

Date functions are used to extract parts of a date (like MONTH(), YEAR()) or perform date calculations, but a logical function is still required to compare the extracted month to 'January'.

Concept tested: Data filtering with logical functions

Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/language-elements/logical-operators-transact-sql

Topics

#Logical functions#Conditional statements#Data filtering#Flagging data

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