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Who Actually Bought?

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Kindled sends a hand-written thank-you card to everybody who has bought something, and the person addressing the envelopes needs names, not id numbers. The purchase is recorded in the activity table and the name lives on the account record, so neither table can produce the list on its own. Nobody may appear twice, however many times they have bought.

events — one row per tracked action. user_id points at a row in users. event_type is one of signup, view_product, add_to_cart and purchase. event_date is the day the action happened. Nothing guarantees a person produces all four kinds, or any particular number of rows.

id user_id event_type event_date
1 1 signup 2023-05-01
2 1 view_product 2023-05-01
3 1 add_to_cart 2023-05-02
4 1 purchase 2023-05-03
5 2 signup 2023-05-02
6 2 view_product 2023-05-02
7 3 signup 2023-05-03
8 3 view_product 2023-05-03
9 3 add_to_cart 2023-05-04
10 4 signup 2023-05-04
11 4 view_product 2023-05-05
12 4 add_to_cart 2023-05-05
13 4 purchase 2023-05-06
14 5 signup 2023-05-05
15 6 signup 2023-05-06
16 6 view_product 2023-05-06
17 7 signup 2023-05-07
18 7 view_product 2023-05-07
19 7 add_to_cart 2023-05-08
20 7 purchase 2023-05-09
21 8 signup 2023-05-08

users — one row per person who has created an account. source records how they arrived: organic means they found Kindled themselves, paid_search means they clicked a bought advert, and referral means an existing customer invited them. signup_date is the day they registered.

id name source signup_date
1 Aiden Cole organic 2023-05-01
2 Bianca Reyes paid_search 2023-05-02
3 Carlos Mora organic 2023-05-03
4 Delia Frank referral 2023-05-04
5 Ewan Blake paid_search 2023-05-05
6 Fiona Grey organic 2023-05-06
7 Gus Herrera referral 2023-05-07
8 Hana Ito paid_search 2023-05-08

Both tables already exist in the database — there is nothing to create or load.

Task: Write a query that returns a single column, name, listing everybody who has recorded at least one purchase. Each person appears exactly once, in alphabetical sequence by name.

Example output — shape only, on invented people. If three of them had bought something, you would get:

name
Nadia Petrov
Owen Blackwood
Rafael Costa

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