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Submit a Challenge IDEA


If you have a great SQL Server Challenge idea, send us your challenge idea and we will be very happy to review and publish them.

What are challenge ideas?

Any business problem that requires above average SQL Server skills to solve may be qualified as an ideal candidate for the SQL Server Challenge Idea Contest. It could be one of the following:

  1. Any problem that you came across and successfully solved.
  2. Any problem that you have come across but was not able to solve.
  3. Any difficult problem that you have seen, heard of can think of.

Challenge Guidelines

The challenge idea you submit should follow the guidelines given below.

  1. It should be a problem that can be solved using TSQL.
  2. It should be a data transformation challenge – taking data from one or more tables and producing the output in a certain format.
  3. You should provide a description of the challenge.
  4. You should provide detailed list of the rules, logic requirements and additional details such as sort order etc, along with your submission.
  5. you should provide the sample data and expected results. The sample data should be simple, short and minimal and should focus on explaining the concept of the challenge
  6. You should provide the scripts to create the sample data
  7. Though not mandatory, it is recommended that you provide a more detailed data for performing the logic testing of the solutions. This data should contain a more detailed tricky set of data which has all sort of odd and exceptional value combinations.
  8. Finally, though it is not mandatory, we will be very happy if you can provide the script for generating the load testing data. The load testing is done with a larger data set, which is usally 1 million rows.

Submit your challenge idea