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Challenge: Top-N Factbook Entries

Explore how to craft SQL queries in PostgreSQL to retrieve the top-N records from the factbook table starting from a given date. This lesson enhances your ability to filter and sort data effectively, using real-world financial trade and share data.

Problem statement

Write a query to retrieve top-N records from the factbook table where the start date would be 2010-02-04.

Here’s what the data in the factbook table looks like:

year  date       
...