We will NOT hold the championship today.
Even if the website becomes available within next two hours, I do not want to take a chance at starting the competition and then having problems before it is done.
We will reschedule for a day and time in March.
Participants will receive an email for a new date and time soon.
But based on requests from the last one, I will put this out idea out now:
What do you think of holding the championship on Saturday?
More specifically, please post a comment here if you are participating in the 2014 PL/SQL championship and you cannot or do not want to compete on Saturday
The PL/SQL Challenge (www.plsqlchallenge.com) offers a daily quiz on the PL/SQL language, through which thousands of Oracle technologists demonstrate and deepen their knowledge of PL/SQL. This blog contains posts by the PL/SQL Challenge founder, Steven Feuerstein, as well as comments from players.
26 February 2015
Three Out of Four Isn't Too Bad
We held two annual championships last week (SQL and Database Design).
We held a third this week on Logic.
They all went pretty smoothly.
In 2.5 hours it is time for the grand finale: the PL/SQL Championship.
And the PL/SQL Challenge website just went down. Possibly another DDOS attack.
I suppose I should feel proud that our website is so high profile, so mission critical, that someone thinks it is worth their time to attack it.
Except I know the site is not all that high profile and is definitely not mission critical.
So I am just really irritated.
Well, worst comes to worst, we will just reschedule.
That's better than having the championship start and then the site goes down.
Because in that case, I have to produce new quizzes. That would be a serious hassle.
We held a third this week on Logic.
They all went pretty smoothly.
In 2.5 hours it is time for the grand finale: the PL/SQL Championship.
And the PL/SQL Challenge website just went down. Possibly another DDOS attack.
I suppose I should feel proud that our website is so high profile, so mission critical, that someone thinks it is worth their time to attack it.
Except I know the site is not all that high profile and is definitely not mission critical.
So I am just really irritated.
Well, worst comes to worst, we will just reschedule.
That's better than having the championship start and then the site goes down.
Because in that case, I have to produce new quizzes. That would be a serious hassle.
24 February 2015
Results of First-ever Database Design Annual Championship
You will find below the rankings for the 2014 championship; the number next to the player's name is the number of times that player has participated in a championship.
Congratulations first and foremost to our top-ranked players:
1st Place: Sean Molloy of United States
2nd Place: Pavel Zeman of Czech Republic
3rd Place: Justin Cave of United States
As you can see in the table below, the ranking was very tight, with the top two players both getting 91% correct, and the next four all with 87% correct.
Next, congratulations to everyone who played in the championship. I hope you found it entertaining, challenging and educational. And for those who were not able to participate in the championship, you can take the quizzes next week through the Practice feature. We will also make the championship as a whole available as a Test, so you can take it just like these players did.
Thanks and congratulations to the Database Design Quizmaster, Chris Saxon, also our brand-new Oracle Developer Advocate for SQL.
Steven Feuerstein
Congratulations first and foremost to our top-ranked players:
1st Place: Sean Molloy of United States
2nd Place: Pavel Zeman of Czech Republic
3rd Place: Justin Cave of United States
As you can see in the table below, the ranking was very tight, with the top two players both getting 91% correct, and the next four all with 87% correct.
Next, congratulations to everyone who played in the championship. I hope you found it entertaining, challenging and educational. And for those who were not able to participate in the championship, you can take the quizzes next week through the Practice feature. We will also make the championship as a whole available as a Test, so you can take it just like these players did.
Thanks and congratulations to the Database Design Quizmaster, Chris Saxon, also our brand-new Oracle Developer Advocate for SQL.
Steven Feuerstein
| Rank | Name | Country | Total Time | % Correct | Total Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sean Molloy (1) | United States | 23 mins 21 secs | 91% | 2657 |
| 2 | Pavel Zeman (1) | Czech Republic | 38 mins 25 secs | 91% | 2596 |
| 3 | Justin Cave (1) | United States | 23 mins 14 secs | 87% | 2457 |
| 4 | Elic (1) | Belarus | 28 mins 30 secs | 87% | 2436 |
| 5 | mentzel.iudith (1) | Israel | 28 mins 34 secs | 87% | 2436 |
| 6 | Sandra99 (1) | Italy | 34 mins 22 secs | 87% | 2413 |
| 7 | Stelios Vlasopoulos (1) | Belgium | 35 mins 22 secs | 83% | 2259 |
| 8 | Viacheslav Stepanov (1) | Russia | 20 mins 06 secs | 78% | 2220 |
| 9 | Andrey Zaytsev (1) | Russia | 35 mins 43 secs | 78% | 2207 |
| 10 | Eric Levin (1) | United States | 38 mins 55 secs | 78% | 2194 |
| 11 | Christoph Hillinger (1) | Austria | 15 mins 06 secs | 78% | 2190 |
| 12 | Michal Cvan (1) | Slovakia | 36 mins 31 secs | 78% | 2154 |
| 13 | Siim Kask (1) | Estonia | 20 mins 26 secs | 74% | 2118 |
| 14 | Jan van Overveld (1) | Netherlands | 23 mins 26 secs | 74% | 2106 |
| 15 | Niels Hecker (1) | Germany | 36 mins 56 secs | 78% | 2102 |
| 16 | Ivan Blanarik (1) | Slovakia | 19 mins 30 secs | 74% | 2072 |
| 17 | Chad Lee (1) | United States | 32 mins 45 secs | 74% | 2069 |
| 18 | _tiki_4_ (1) | Germany | 08 mins 35 secs | 74% | 2066 |
| 19 | Kuvardin Evgeniy (1) | Russia | 28 mins 49 secs | 74% | 1985 |
| 20 | Chase Mei (1) | Canada | 07 mins 58 secs | 70% | 1968 |
| 21 | Joaquin Gonzalez (1) | Spain | 16 mins 33 secs | 70% | 1934 |
| 22 | danad (1) | Czech Republic | 30 mins 46 secs | 70% | 1927 |
| 23 | Maxim Borunov (1) | Russia | 35 mins 53 secs | 70% | 1906 |
| 24 | Pavel Noga (1) | Czech Republic | 39 mins 31 secs | 70% | 1892 |
| 25 | Oleksiy Varchyn (1) | Norway | 12 mins 57 secs | 65% | 1848 |
| 26 | Jan Šerák (1) | Czech Republic | 29 mins 45 secs | 65% | 1831 |
| 27 | Leszek Grudzień (1) | Poland | 18 mins 23 secs | 65% | 1826 |
| 28 | Manfred Kleander (1) | Austria | 36 mins 13 secs | 70% | 1805 |
| 29 | Rytis Budreika (1) | Lithuania | 07 mins 16 secs | 65% | 1771 |
| 30 | Michal P. (1) | Poland | 22 mins 26 secs | 65% | 1760 |
| 31 | Anna Onishchuk (1) | Ireland | 15 mins 50 secs | 65% | 1737 |
| 32 | Marcus Matzberger (1) | Germany | 22 mins 19 secs | 61% | 1661 |
| 33 | Sachi (1) | India | 11 mins 00 secs | 57% | 1606 |
| 34 | Henry Abeska (1) | Czech Republic | 13 mins 08 secs | 61% | 1597 |
| 35 | Mehrab (1) | United Kingdom | 39 mins 16 secs | 61% | 1593 |
| 36 | Naresh Kumar (1) | Malaysia | 30 mins 22 secs | 61% | 1579 |
| 37 | Krzysztof Helbin (1) | Poland | 19 mins 07 secs | 61% | 1574 |
| 38 | PZOL (1) | Hungary | 34 mins 30 secs | 61% | 1562 |
| 39 | Tobias Stark (1) | Germany | 27 mins 01 secs | 57% | 1542 |
| 40 | dannyg64 (1) | United States | 19 mins 14 secs | 57% | 1523 |
| 41 | João Barreto (1) | Portugal | 30 mins 57 secs | 57% | 1476 |
| 42 | MarkM. (1) | Germany | 28 mins 53 secs | 48% | 1184 |
| 43 | Ravshan Abbasov (1) | Uzbekistan | 28 mins 13 secs | 43% | 1087 |
| 44 | Scott Wesley (1) | Australia | 00 mins 45 secs | 17% | 397 |
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