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Sessionization and Time-Based Grouping

Last Updated: May 3, 2026

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Clickstream analysis, user engagement tracking, and listening behavior reports all depend on one idea: grouping a sequence of timestamped events into "sessions."

A session is a burst of activity separated from other bursts by a period of inactivity. SQL has no built-in session concept, so you need to manufacture session boundaries from raw timestamps.

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