Re: sqlzoo.net Problems with the PostgreSQL Interactive Tutorial

On Tuesday 12 August 2008 11:59:05 Richard Broersma wrote:
> I am not sure if anyone is already familiar with this this site.
> Andrew Cumming of the School of Computing of Napier University has
> developed a very useful turtorial that is an excellent tool for anyone
> trying to learn SQL.  The on-line tutorial allows the user to chose
> one of the following back-end RDMBS engines ( PostgreSQL | MySQL | MS
> SQL Server | DB2 | Oracle ) to test the user entered SQL.
>
> However, it seems that there are problems with the PostgreSQL and MS
> SQL Servers back-ends.  The back-end returns various server generated
> errors.
>
> I am wondering if the PostgreSQL community would like to offer Andrew
> some/any-kind of support for his site to correct any
> application/PostgreSQL server errors and at the same time advertise
> his site as a reference that newbies coming to PostgreSQL could use
> when trying to learning SQL in PostgreSQL.
>
> It would be unfortunate if newbies would discount PostgreSQL for one
> of the other RDBMS due to their in-ability to learn SQL using the
> PostgreSQL backend.
>
> Here is Andrew's personal info website:
> http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~andrew/
>
> Any thoughts?
>

Has anyone followed up on this? If not I can drop him a line.

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Robert Treat
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