MediumSQL challenge #129HAVING

Find Products with an Average Rating Above 4

Return the products whose reviews average more than 4 stars.

The challenge runs on the SQLabHub practice database (SQLite) and uses the reviews table. You can solve it in the browser, with nothing to install.

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The task

Find products with average rating above 4.

A correct answer returns 11 rows with 2 columns: product_id, AVG(rating).

Tables used in this challenge

`reviews` 180 rows

id INTEGER (PK) · product_id INTEGER · user_id INTEGER · rating INTEGER · comment TEXT · reviewed_at TEXT · helpful_votes INTEGER

First 3 rows of the reviews table
id	product_id	user_id	rating	comment	reviewed_at	helpful_votes
1	23	45	5	Works perfectly. Very happy with this purchase.	2022-09-02	40
2	101	68	5	Excellent build quality. Will buy again!	2023-01-05	96
3	40	39	1	Would give 6 stars if I could!	2023-05-15	17

The first rows of each table are shown. See how all the tables relate on the database schema page.

Expected output

Expected output of the challenge
product_id	AVG(rating)
23	4.5
43	5
56	5
74	5
86	5

First 5 of 11 rows. This is the output of the model solution on the practice database. The task does not fix a sort order, so your rows may come back in a different order.

What you practise

Summarising many rows into one value with COUNT, SUM, AVG, MIN or MAX
Grouping rows with GROUP BY to get one result row per group
Filtering groups after aggregation with HAVING

Hint and approach

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Show the hint

GROUP BY + HAVING

Show the step-by-step approach

How the model solution is built, in the order the database evaluates it:

Read from the reviews table.
Group the rows by product_id, so the result has one row for each value.
For each group, compute AVG(rating).
Filter the groups in HAVING: keep those where AVG(rating) is greater than 4.

Model solution

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What to watch for

The average is computed from the reviews table, not read from products.rating. A product with one 5-star review qualifies, so real reports usually add a minimum review count to the HAVING clause.

HAVING. Conditions on single rows belong in WHERE and conditions on aggregates in HAVING. Putting a row filter in HAVING works, but it groups rows that are about to be thrown away.
GROUP BY. Every selected column must either be in GROUP BY or sit inside an aggregate. SQLite accepts other columns and returns an arbitrary value for them; most databases raise an error.
Aggregate functions. Aggregates skip NULLs. AVG divides by the number of non-NULL values and COUNT(column) can be smaller than COUNT(*).