Half a Thousand Quizzes
Passed a minor milestone 😁 Sign in to https://devgym.oracle.com/ Go to Quizzes Go to Explore All Quizzes Scroll down to Author filters Put a checkmark at Kim Berg Hansen Result: (In fact, as you read this, the number will already have increased – it grows steadily…
SQL Tuning Golf, anyone?
Golf is one of the very few sports where the goal is the lowest possible score. Code golf is about solving a given algorithm using the fewest possible characters. It can be very fun indeed to play code golf, also in SQL. But for real…
MASH – Mentor And Speaker Hub – is here for you
Thursday 11th of March 2021 saw the birth of the MASH Program – Mentor And Speaker Hub. A program dedicated to give new tech speakers an easier way into the speaking community by connecting to an experienced speaker as mentor to provide guidance in the first…
SQL Survey and Christmas Book Raffle Results
Over the last weeks I’ve conducted a little Christmas survey with a few SQL related questions, raffling off one copy of Practical Oracle SQL among those who participated in the survey. The survey is over and I did a single call to DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE to find…
Game Of Life in MODEL clause – revisited
Long time ago I blogged about Conways’s Game of Life in a MODEL clause, which also made it into Chapter 6 of my book Practical Oracle SQL. Today Samuel Nitsche applied this approach to solve Day 11 of Advent of Code 2020 (follow Sam’s blog for…
Midsummer Midsomer SQL Winner
In June I launched the Midsummer Midsomer Murder SQL Challenge and Book Competition. I promised to announce a winner within a week of the deadline – that was yesterday, so I’m afraid I’m one day late, sorry about that but better late than never 😇….
Midsummer Midsomer Murder SQL Challenge and Book Competition
It’s getting close to Midsummer, where in Denmark we traditionally burn witches on Saint John’s Eve. If we misspell it slightly to Midsomer, we have the Midsomer Murders series with loads of dead. So let’s have a little murderous SQL challenge for Midsummer to give…
And the winner is…
10 days ago I started a raffle, where you could complete a SQL Workout and win a copy of Practical Oracle SQL. The deadline was end of April UTC, so today I found the winner… 9 raffle participants had completed the workout, so I had…
Win! Win! Win! – A signed copy of Practical Oracle SQL
Here’s a copy of my Practical Oracle SQL book: You want it? Join my SQL raffle and you might win it… If we had all been out to conferences like we used to, I’d have brought a book copy when I was presenting and given…
“Practical Oracle SQL” … LIVE!
Like most of us, you probably can’t go out to the pub for a beer at the moment.I can’t offer a beer to you, but I can offer a free webinar about SQL where there’ll be beer data 🍺. It’ll go live Thursday April 16th…