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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

seems like there's an issue with case 3. the person_id and from surveillance_records doesn't match up with the person_id in the hotel_checkins table when joined on hotel-checkin_id

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Aurenkin 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)
SELECT few FROM people WHERE gets_joke = 1
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

What would my few say?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m a rebel. I write all my sql in lowercase

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah we have IDEs to color keywords for us these days. Caps is just extra work

[–] diemartin 4 points 15 hours ago

Capital letters are bigger, thus they use bigger bytes and use too much disk space and memory. That's why most programming languages use lowercase, and why the most common loop variable is i.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I tried to hit F5 to run a query and it refreshed the page lol

edit: I'm also slightly annoyed that the table names are a mix of singular and plural

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

That totally threw me off. “Literally unplayable,” as they say.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

If you're new to SQL there's interactive Select Star SQL tutorial. And there's another detective — SQL Murder Mystery

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

I have some time to kill before having to run some errands. I've started with the first one and it's pretty fun!

Said "fuck yeah" a couple times to myself when I got the answer right. I've not used SQL before but I've got a decent grasp (as in I get the basics) on programming languages so it's somewhat intuitive to me

Thanks for the links!! I look forward to continuing when I get back

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I know what I'm doing at work today

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

My gosh, these are incredible. Thank you for sharing them. I cried at Select Star; that is legitimate art.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

This seems like it was made specifically for me and my interests.

[–] omgitsaheadcrab 6 points 1 day ago