Create a new track for Postgresql

bijamicine · February 14, 2023, 10:08pm

Create new track for SQL

opened 02:03PM - 14 Jan 23 UTC

closed 02:03PM - 14 Jan 23 UTC

Dear Exercism Team, I have recently discovered Exercism, and I am impressed b…y the quality of the courses and the platform. I am particularly interested in SQL and I noticed that your courses do not currently have a dedicated track for SQL. As a fresher, I would like to contribute to the development of a SQL track on Exercism. I am confident that my knowledge and skills in SQL will be an asset to the team. I understand that creating a new track is a big undertaking and would be happy to assist in any way possible. I am willing to contribute to the development of the course materials, proofreading, and testing. I am also open to any other opportunities that may be available for me to contribute. I believe that a SQL track on Exercism would be a valuable resource for software developers and data analysts looking to improve their skills and advance their careers. I would greatly appreciate it if you would consider allowing me to contribute to the development of the SQL track. Please feel free to contact me at hapisnake@gmail.com to discuss this further. Thank you for your time and consideration. Best regards, **GiriPrasath D**

The issue was closed and even though I’m not the author, I think it’d be great to have an SQL course be it postgres or mariadb. Given most opensource projects use one or the other.

It was pointed out that a PL/SQL course exists but given the description, it doubt it’s very useful to the majority of learners since Oracle Database is proprietary software.

Oracle PL/SQL is an extension of regular SQL that adds support for procedural programming using constructs like loops and conditions.

I’m using pgexercises dot com and postgresqltutorial dot com to learn at the moment which could be used as inspiration.

IsaacG · February 14, 2023, 10:22pm

All the tracks (I believe) are created and maintained by volunteers. It would be lovely to have more tracks … but that needs someone to put in the work to build and maintain them

bijamicine · February 15, 2023, 6:05pm

Of course. They just moved such requests here, hence this post

kotp · February 15, 2023, 6:35pm

pgexercises.com and postgresqltutorial.com unobfuscated for ease of access.

bijamicine · February 15, 2023, 7:17pm

Couldn’t post more than 2 links as a new member. Thanks for doing it for me

hapisnake · February 16, 2023, 10:43am

Thanks for upvoting my question.