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[–] [email protected] 81 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] killeronthecorner 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)
SELECT few FROM people WHERE gets_joke = 1
[–] x00z 5 points 3 days ago

What would my few say?

[–] SlapnutsGT 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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] 1 points 12 hours ago

And why untyped languages are better at managing memory too. Less characters ftw!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] tpyo 6 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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] 7 points 3 days ago

I know what I'm doing at work today

[–] tpyo 2 points 2 days 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] 2 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days 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] 6 points 3 days ago