Code RoomTransactions that do not balance
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Transactions that do not balance

SQLCode quality & reviewSenior–Staff~14 min

In double-entry bookkeeping every transaction must sum to zero. Find any that do not. Return `txn_id` and `imbalance_cents`, ordered by transaction.

If the books are clean, the correct answer is no rows.

What a strong answer looks like

Say what the query is meant to return before you write it, and name the shape of the answer: how many rows, grouped by what. Then watch the NULLs and the duplicates, because that is where most of these are lost.

Run onlyA query runs as one statement, so there is nothing to step through. Run it and read the rows.

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Expected, in this order

txn_idimbalance_cents

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