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...

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...

"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 2020 at 20:00 (8 PM) CEST (GMT+2).

You can sign up here (did I mention it's free?):

http://www.prohuddle.com/webinars/KimBergHansen/practical_oracle_sql.php

Results of the Dev Gym SQL Championship for 2019

Another Oracle Dev Gym championship in the domain of SQL is completed! 33 participants did an awesome job on the extra-tough quizzes I concocted.

The "Practical Oracle SQL" book is available...

You all know I've been writing on this book called "Practical Oracle SQL", right?

Well, now it's available for purchase:

• https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781484256169

Or you can find it on Amazon too:

• https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Oracle-SQL-Mastering-Database/dp/1484256166

If you want to know more about why I wrote it and what's in it, read the interview in the NoCOUG Journal:

• http://nocoug.org/Journal/NoCOUG_Journal_202002.pdf#page=4

I'm really happy about the result and I hope you all enjoy reading it. I'm convinced you'll most likely get to be better at doing SQL because of this book. Or at least you'll be convinced that SQL can solve anything :-)

A couple articles...

In case you missed a couple tweets last week, I'd like to point you to a couple articles by me that was recently published.

In the Oraworld Magazine was published:

• My travel journal about the Oracle Groundbreakers Nordic Tour 2019 in October.

In the NoCOUG (Northern California Oracle Users Group) Journal was published:

• An interview where I talk about why I've written yet another SQL book and what's in it.

And the NoCOUG Journal also printed:

• A book excerpt containing chapter 16 of Practical Oracle SQL (reprinted with permission.)

I hope you enjoy reading what I write 😊.

Announcing participants in the Oracle Dev Gym SQL Championship 2019

2019 is over. Throughout the year over 1800 Oracle Database developers participated in the "Select from SQL" Tournament on Oracle Dev Gym.

It's time for the Top 50 of those that played in the 2019 tournament to try their skills in the Annual SQL Championship, which will be held late February!