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This is a SQL midterm exam designed for journalism students learning data analysis and programming. It tests knowledge of SQL fundamentals through practical exercises using a Congressional Twitter dataset. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A midterm test on basic SQL for my journalism class launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   I made a SQL game to help people learn / challenge their skills▲547

   The text-based SQL learning game for data scientists and marketers

   2023 · lost-at-sql.therobinlord.com · its alternatives →

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   Natural-SQL-7B, a strong text-to-SQL model▲362

   Would love thoughts! Here is the HF page: https://huggingface.co/chatdb/natural-sql-7b

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   SQL Trainer – Learn SQL by doing live data exercises▲303

   2018 · app.bytescout.com · its alternatives →

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   Select Star SQL, an interactive SQL book▲700

   2018 · selectstarsql.com · its alternatives →

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   SQL Teaching – Codecademy for SQL▲166

   The easiest way to learn SQL

   2015 · sqlteaching.com · its alternatives →

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   SQL FOR ZOMBIES▲75

   Entertaining way to learn SQL

   2015 · alexpineda.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

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   SQL School▲144

   Data analysts training data analysts

   2014 · sqlschool.modeanalytics.com · its alternatives →

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   Learn SQL with Codecademy and Periscope▲249

   Learn SQL - the preferred tool of data analysts everywhere …

   2015 · codecademy.com · its alternatives →

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   SQL Cards▲201

   Teach and learn SQL with cards

   2019 · sqlcards.surge.sh · its alternatives →

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    SQL Basics▲26

    Notes about creative coding on the Web.

    2021 · garden.bradwoods.io · its alternatives →

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    SQLite Playground▲213

    Sqlime is an online SQLite playground for debugging and sharing SQL snippets.

    2021 · sqlime.org · its alternatives →

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    I implemented a neural network in SQL▲121

    Two weeks ago I was on my babymoon in Corfu, Greece. While in transit, I was overseeing a GSoC intern submit an important feature to my array database library, Xarray-SQL. He added `to_dataset()`, which completed the roundtrip between thinking of array data in a tabular model simultaneously as gridded rasters (the premise of the project is that every Nd array can be mapped to 2d, where orthogonal dims of the Nd array are just primary keys of a tabular representation). We discussed in chat, now that this feature existed, what demos could we make that would prove this data model works? With…

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I collected 500 python & SQL questions from data science interviews▲21

    2020 · platform.stratascratch.com · its alternatives →

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    SQL Grammar▲81

    Check if your SQL is readable or not

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    An experimental distributed SQL database from scratch in Go▲104

    LBADD: An experimental, distributed SQL database. Contribute to tomarrell/lbadd development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    PostgreSQL Exercises - exercises and support for learning SQL▲11

    2013 · pgexercises.com · its alternatives →

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    SQL query for CSV▲85

    Analyze CSV records using sql syntax right in your browser

    2022 · csv-query.com · its alternatives →

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    Natural Language to SQL "Text-to-SQL" API▲62

    Hi HN- Today, we are releasing the hosted API for our natural language to SQL engine, which allows you to: (1) Explain Your Data: Feed in dictionaries, dbt, schemas, Confluence docs - we'll understand the business context to your data. (2) Train Your AI: Fine-tune an LLM (including GPT-4) specifically for your data, increasing accuracy and lowering latency (3) Trust the Answer: See confidence scores with each AI-generated query, stay in control. (4) Conduct complex SQL queries Problem background - Developers struggle to build NL-to-SQL into products because LLMs do not work out-of-the-box;…

    2024 · dataherald.com · its alternatives →

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    SQL for Marketers▲76

    SQL Tutorial for Marketers

    2014 · justinmares.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn SQL Fundamentals▲18

    https://mrbrian.typeform.com/to/BdsZIO Join the SQLearn Mailing List to solve mindful and challenging SQL problems. See you on the leaderboard.

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    SQLPage – Build Dynamic Websites with Just SQL Queries▲45

    Hey Hacker News! I wanted to share the open source project I have been working on during the last year: SQLPage, a tool to build small web applications entirely in SQL. Building web applications with just SQL isn't as crazy as it seems. Most simple applications can be expressed declaratively as just data queries that fill pre-defined web components. I'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts on it. Would you potentially use it? How can it be improved? Website: https://sql.ophir.dev/ Github: https://github.com/lovasoa/SQLpage Example app:…

    2023 · sql.ophir.dev · its alternatives →

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    Describe SQL using natural language, and execute against real data▲66

    I played around with GPT-3 to build this demo. Select a public BigQuery dataset and describe your query in natural English, then edit the generated SQL as needed and execute it. https://app.tabbydata.com/sql-assistant-demo

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Text-To-SQL▲15

    Simple tool to turn questions into SQL queries

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    SQL for Marketers▲9

    Free email course for learning basic SQL

    2015 · its alternatives →

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