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Challenge #427: Bookstore Sales Analysis

i-godz
7 - Meteor
3 weeks ago
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martinson
8 - Asteroid
3 weeks ago

Attempt 1.

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GGGDias
8 - Asteroid
yesterday

Amazing how the brain works.. i just learnt a bit about the Generate rows tool yesterday and somehow figured out this challenge would be a good application for it.

Curious to see what the published solution was and how others tackled this well made challenge.

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GGGDias
8 - Asteroid
yesterday

We thought up likely the most straight forward path to the solution.  Much better than the posted solution actually.
You multirowed on the dates and I multirowed on the books in a similar approach I've seen on a different challenge. 
Yours was blatantly cleaner and more efficient.  

I love the way you used the SORT tool and then FIRST alongside SUM in the same Summarize tool.

It doesn't get much more elegant than that!  Kudos to you Phillip!

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