Changes to Oracle Dev Gym Tournaments in 2021

The more things change, the more they stay the same?

Or is it: No matter how much we want things to stay the same, they inevitably must change?

Or perhaps it's: 2020's been such a horrible year in many respects, let's change things up in 2021 in every way we can!

Whichever platitude or desire fits best, at the Oracle Dev Gym, things are about to change.

From 2010 to 2014, this website (then known as the PL/SQL Challenge) offered daily quizzes on PL/SQL, plus SQL, Logic, database design, APEX (on and off), Java (for a while). In 2014, when I rejoined Oracle, the PL/SQL quiz also went to a weekly cadence.

For 2021, we are going to switch things up a bit more. Starting January 9, the SQL, PL/SQL and database design quizzes will be "converged" into a single weekly Oracle Database quiz.

I know that this change may not be very popular with the many players who have, with incredible dedication, taken pretty much every single one of those quizzes over the years.

I hope, though, that everyone who visits the Dev Gym will benefit from the wider scope of topics covered in the new quiz, the focus on newer features, and the additional workouts and classes that will be offered on the site.

You can read more of the details about this change on Chris Saxon's SQL blog.

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