INNER JOIN of pagevies, contacts and companies - duplicated entries - sql

Question

In short: 3 table inner join duplicates records
I have data in BigQuery in 3 tables:
Pageviews with columns:
timestamp
user_id
title
path
Contacts with columns:
website_user_id
email
company_id
Companies with columns:
id
name
I want to display all recorded pageviews and, if user and/or company is known, display this data next to pageview.
First, I join contact and pageviews data (SQL is generated by Metabase business intelligence tool):
SELECT
`analytics.pageviews`.`timestamp` AS `timestamp`,
`analytics.pageviews`.`title` AS `title`,
`analytics.pageviews`.`path` AS `path`,
`Contacts`.`email` AS `email`
FROM `analytics.pageviews`
INNER JOIN `analytics.contacts` `Contacts` ON `analytics.pageviews`.`user_id` = `Contacts`.`website_user_id`
ORDER BY `timestamp` DESC
It works as expected and I can see pageviews attributed to known contacts.
Next, I'd like to show pageviews of contacts with known company and which company is this:
SELECT
`analytics.pageviews`.`timestamp` AS `timestamp`,
`analytics.pageviews`.`title` AS `title`,
`analytics.pageviews`.`path` AS `path`,
`Contacts`.`email` AS `email`,
`Companies`.`name` AS `name`
FROM `analytics.pageviews`
INNER JOIN `analytics.contacts` `Contacts` ON `analytics.pageviews`.`user_id` = `Contacts`.`website_user_id`
INNER JOIN `analytics.companies` `Companies` ON `Contacts`.`company_id` = `Companies`.`id`
ORDER BY `timestamp` DESC
With this query I would expect to see only pageviews where associated contact AND company are known (just another column for company name). The problem is, I get duplicate rows for every pageview (sometimes 5, sometimes 20 identical rows).
I want to avoid selecting DISTINCT timestamps because it can lead to excluding valid pageviews from different users but with identical timestamp.
How to approach this?

Answer 1

Your description sounds like you have duplciates in companies. This is easy to test for:
select c.id, count(*)
from `analytics.companies` c
group by c.id
having count(*) >= 2;
You can get the details using window functions:
select c.*
from (select c.*, count(*) over (partition by c.id) as cnt
from `analytics.companies` c
) c
where cnt >= 2
order by cnt desc, id;