Querying DAU/MAU over time (daily)

Question

I have a daily sessions table with columns user_id and date. I\'d like to graph out DAU/MAU (daily active users / monthly active users) on a daily basis. For example:

Answer 1

This one uses COUNT DISTINCT to get the rolling 30 days DAU/MAU:

(calculating reddit's user engagement in BigQuery - but the SQL is standard enough to be used on other databases)

SELECT day, dau, mau, INTEGER(100*dau/mau) daumau
FROM (
  SELECT day, EXACT_COUNT_DISTINCT(author) dau, FIRST(mau) mau
  FROM (
    SELECT DATE(SEC_TO_TIMESTAMP(created_utc)) day, author
    FROM [fh-bigquery:reddit_comments.2015_09]
    WHERE subreddit='AskReddit') a
  JOIN (
    SELECT stopday, EXACT_COUNT_DISTINCT(author) mau
    FROM (SELECT created_utc, subreddit, author FROM [fh-bigquery:reddit_comments.2015_09], [fh-bigquery:reddit_comments.2015_08]) a
    CROSS JOIN (
      SELECT DATE(SEC_TO_TIMESTAMP(created_utc)) stopday
      FROM [fh-bigquery:reddit_comments.2015_09]
      GROUP BY 1
    ) b
    WHERE subreddit='AskReddit'
    AND SEC_TO_TIMESTAMP(created_utc) BETWEEN DATE_ADD(stopday, -30, 'day') AND TIMESTAMP(stopday)
    GROUP BY 1
  ) b
  ON a.day=b.stopday
  GROUP BY 1
)
ORDER BY 1

I went further at How to calculate DAU/MAU with BigQuery (engagement)