On Apr 20, 7:59 am, byrnejb <[email protected]> wrote: > Might I suggest for consideration a CONTEST? > > People submit the description of a real world SQL problem that they > have had and the SQL code they used to solve it. When the period for > problem submissions ends, say 10-14 days, the list members vote for > the top 3 (or more if desired) problems based on the technical issues > raised. > > Once the N winning problems are selected then people can submit their > best efforts at solving one or each of the problems using Sequel. They > must also provide a written explanation (can be inline comments) of > what they did and why they did it that way. After another two weeks > or so we vote on the merits of each of the solutions submitted. > > The winning pairs of problem and solution become your examples and > both the problem submitter and the Sequel solver get their names > associated with the examples. > > The problems submitted MUST have been solved by the submitter using > SQL and the SQl solution provided. I think that this would greatly > reduce the likelihood of the problems being contrived. Further, there > is no need for the problem submitter to necessarily have a Sequel > solution to offer. Likewise there is no need for the Sequel solution > to come from anyone that submitted a problem. > > WDYT?
Personally, I don't think response rates would be high enough to justify the effort involved in setting such a contest up. However, if you have an interesting Sequel story, I'm happy to accept guest blog posts for the Sequel blog. Jeremy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sequel-talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sequel-talk?hl=en.
