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This question evaluates competency in data manipulation, deduplication of symmetric relationships, and handling unordered pairs within relational or tabular datasets using SQL or Python/Pandas.

Identify Unique Unordered City Pairs in Flight Log

Company: Amazon

Role: Business Intelligence Engineer

Category: Data Manipulation (SQL/Python)

Difficulty: medium

Interview Round: Onsite

FLIGHTS +----------------+---------------+ | departure_city | arrival_city | +----------------+---------------+ | NYC | LAX | | LAX | NYC | | ORD | ATL | +----------------+---------------+ ##### Scenario You work with an airline flight log. Each row records a flight’s origin and destination city. Management wants to see all distinct city pairs regardless of flight direction (NYC–LAX is the same as LAX–NYC). ##### Question Write a SQL query (or equivalent Python/Pandas snippet) that returns the unique unordered city pairs from the FLIGHTS table, treating (A,B) and (B,A) as the same route combination. ##### Hints Normalize the order of the two cities—e.g., use LEAST/GREATEST or sort values—then GROUP BY the normalized pair.

Quick Answer: This question evaluates competency in data manipulation, deduplication of symmetric relationships, and handling unordered pairs within relational or tabular datasets using SQL or Python/Pandas.

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