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You will find below the rankings for the Logic Annual Championship for 2019, held in February 2020 on the Oracle Dev Gym . The number next to the player's name is the number of times that player has participated in a championship. Below the table of results for this championship, you will find another list showing the championship history of each of these players. Congratulations first and foremost to our top-ranked players: 1st Place: Stelios Vlasopoulos 2nd Place: Sartograph 3rd Place: NielsHecker Next, congratulations to everyone who played in the championship. We 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 through the Practice feature. We will also make the championship as a whole available as a Workout, so you can take it just like these players did. Finally, many thanks to Eli Feuerstein, Logic Quizmaster who provided a very challenging set of quizzes...

Hello there, Dev Gym members! We plan to release a new version of the Dev Gym (19.3 - we are aligning with the overall version schema followed by Oracle Database and sister sites, like Oracle LiveSQL ). Mainly, it is a tweak of the UI, to bring our site in line with developer.oracle.com and also to make better use of our "real estate." Before we apply the changes, though, we'd love to get some feedback from our users. So when you have a moment or two, please scroll down the page, compare current and 19.3 pages, then let us know what you think. Thanks very much, Steven Home Page Current Site A few things to point out: Orange theme Large banner with search bar Dev Gym 19.3 Home Page Things to note: Switch to black-grey-red theme (just a little bit of red) Much smaller banner Search bar moved to top of site, independent of page Cleaner display of quizzes (we'd like to think) Moving on, in the workouts and classes pages, we've r...

Waaaaay back in 2010, on April 8 to be specific, I started a website called the PL/SQL Challenge. It featured a daily PL/SQL quiz (yes, that's right - a new quiz every weekday!) and gave Oracle Database developers a way to both deepen and demonstrate their expertise. Players were ranked and competed for top honors in our annual championships. Not quite as waaaaay back, in 2014, I rejoined Oracle Corporation after 22 years away (from the company, not from the technology). The PL/SQL Challenge came with me, and a year later we rebranded it as the Oracle Dev Gym . Today, we offer quizzes on SQL, PL/SQL, database design, logic, Java and Application Express. We've added workouts and classes. Yesterday we celebrated the ninth anniversary of the Dev Gym / PL/SQL Challenge. And my oh my but Oracle Database developers have been busy! Here are some stats from those nine years: Almost 35,000 developers and DBAs have taken quizzes on the site, a total of 1.27M answers subm...

You will find below the rankings for the PL/SQL Challenge Championship for quizzes taken in 2018. The number next to the player's name is the number of times that player has participated in a championship. Below the table of results for this championship, you will find another list showing the championship history of each of these players. Congratulations first and foremost to our top-ranked players: 1st Place: mentzel.iudith 2nd Place: Andrey Zaytsev 3rd Place: Tony Winn Next, congratulations to everyone who played in the championship. We 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 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. Finally, many thanks and our deepest gratitude to our reviewers, especially Elic, who has once again performed an invaluable service to our ...

You will find below the rankings for the Logic Annual Championship for quizzes played in 2018. The number next to the player's name is the number of times that player has participated in a championship. Below the table of results for this championship, you will find another list showing the championship history of each of these players. Congratulations first and foremost to our top-ranked players: 1st Place: Stelios Vlasopoulos 2nd Place: Pavel Zeman 3rd Place: Sartograph   Next, congratulations to everyone who played in the championship. We 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 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. Finally, many thanks to Eli Feuerstein, the Logic Quizmaster who provided a very challenging set of quizzes, and our deepest gratitude to...

Logic is at the very heart of programming, so we complement our quizzes on SQL, PL/SQL and so on with a weekly Logic tournament. And then at the end of the year, the top 50 ranked players qualify for our annual championship. The following players will be invited to participate in the Logic Annual Championship for 2018, currently scheduled to take place on 19 February. The number in parentheses after their names are the number of championships in which they have already participated. Congratulations to all listed below on their accomplishment and best of luck in the upcoming competition! Name Rank Stelios Vlasopoulos (5) 1 Pavel Zeman (4) 2 mentzel.iudith (5) 3 Ludovic Szewczyk (1) 4 James Su (5) 5 Chad Lee (5) 6 Tony Winn (3) 7 Rytis Budreika (5) 8 ted (5) 9 Kanellos (4) 10 Cor van Berkel (4) 11 Köteles Zsolt (4) 12 V...

A new year has arrived, and that means that it's time (or will soon be time) for the PL/SQL Challenge Championship, when up to fifty top players from last year's PL/SQL tournament quizzes compete for top honors. The following players will be invited to participate in the PL/SQL Challenge Championship for 2018, currently scheduled to take place on 21 March (hey, it takes some time to put together five advanced quizzes without any mistakes in them!). The number in parentheses after their names are the number of championships in which they have already participated (note: from 2010 through 2013, we held quarterly championships for our then daily PL/SQL quiz!). Congratulations to all listed below on their accomplishment and best of luck in the upcoming championship! Name Rank Stelios Vlasopoulos (15) 1 mentzel.iudith (18) 2 Tony Winn (7) 3 NielsHecker (19) 4 Andrey Zaytsev (7) 5 patch72 (5) ...

Back in April 2010, I started (with the help of many others!) the PL/SQL Challenge , which offered daily quizzes on PL/SQL, along with weekly quizzes on other technologies. In 2014, Oracle acquired the website and I suspended the daily quiz. Writing five new quizzes each week is a lot of work, and I had a big stack of new responsibilities! But the weekly quizzes continue(d): SQL, PL/SQL, Database Design, Logic and most recently a re-started weekly quiz on Oracle Application Express, made possible by Insum . And Oracle Database technologists kept on using the site to hone their skills. We are rapidly approaching 1,000,000 answers on the site. That all sounds good, right? So why is the title of this post "Check out the Oracle Dev Gym!"? Because the PL/SQL Challenge has, for a while, been in dire need or a "reboot"; not just a redesign built around the massively improved APEX5 , but also a rethinking of how this quiz platform could best serve the needs of the co...