About "TSQL Challenges"

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What are TSQL Challenges?

The challenges we publish through the 'TSQL Challenges' series aimes at helping people to test and enhance their SET based querying skills using TSQL. The most beneficial part of these challenges is that, through these challenges, one gets the opportunity to see better solutions to solve a given problem, from other SQL Server experts.

TSQL Challenges focus on writing queries that transforms data from one structure/format to another. Ideally, each challenge will show a set of source data and the expected result data. A single TSQL query should be written that transforms the data from the source format to target format.

What are the schedules?

Our plan is to come up with a challenge every week. We really want to publish a challenge every friday and each challenge will close in 10 days. This ideally gives the participants two weekends to work on the challenge and come up with their best. Each challenge will close on the second monday after the challenge is published, and then we will start reviewing the entries. The winners and best answers will be announced during the week days.

What I have specified above is the ideal schedule, but currently we are not able to maintain that 100 per cent. But we are getting more organized and we are trying our best to stick to the schedule for managing this better.

Volunteers

If you would like to volunteer with the 'TSQL Challenges' team, we will be more than happy to have you on board. You can volunteer with 'TSQL Challenges' team in a number of ways.

Create new challenges
Involve into the review process
Spread the word in the community

If you are intrested to volunteer with the 'TSQL Challenges' team, send an email to jacob@beyondrelational.com

TSQL Challenges Team

	Jacob Sebastian, SQL Server MVP Jacob Sebastian is the Founder and President of TSQL Challenges. He is a SQL Server MVP, MSDN/Technet Moderator, Regional Mentor for PASS Asia, Author, Speaker and Trainer. See Jacob's Blog\|Profile.
	Rui Carvalho Rui Carvalho is a senior developer on SQL Server and .Net mainly experienced in Web Applications. He works as consultant for a Microsoft experts company called Winwise in France. See Rui's Profile.
	Brad Schulz Brad has been working with databases for 30 years. He was a Microsoft Visual FoxPro (VFP) MVP from 1994-2000, and has written articles for various VFP publications. He now devotes most of his time to SQL Server and is a moderator at the MSDN T-SQL Forums. See Brad's Profile.\|Blog.
	Vijaya Krishna Kadiyala, SQL Server MVP Vijaya started his carrer with VB,ASP & SQL Server then he moved to .Net and then extensively worked on VB.NET, ASP.NET with SQL Server 2000. In addition to.Net, he also architected and designed few J2EE applications and database centric applications. He is Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in ASP/ASP.NET Architecture. See Vijay's Profile.
	Barbarin David Barbarin David working with SQL Server for 6 years. He worked for different sectors of activity (retail industry, automotive and aeronautical industry and now for an hospital center in France). His specialty in performance tuning for VLDB and critical enviroment. See David's Profile.
	Peter Larsson, SQL Server MVP Peter Larsson is a Professional database developer since 2001. He Started to use Microsoft SQL Server in 1993, and have been true since then. Peter is mostly working with performance troubleshooting and database architecturing. See Peter's Profile.
	Mangal Pardeshi, SQL Server MVP Mangal is an E&TC Engineer from Pune University. He started his career as an ERP Technical Consultant in 2007. Currently he works as a BI Developer. His core areas of expertise are Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence.See complete profile.
	Alejandro Messa, SQL Server MVP Alejandro is a Database developer at Bank of America.He has been working with SQL Server for almost 10 years by now, OLTP and OLAP. Lately he has been more dedicated to dimensional modeling, ETL, OLAP, and reporting services, but his passion is T-SQL. See Alejandro's Profile.
	Adam Haines, SQL Server MVP Adam Haines is a MCP Database Administrator and Developer, who has been working with database technology since 2004. Adam has experience in database administration, performance tuning and optimization techniques, working in a clustered environment, SSIS development, Analysis Services, SSRS development, and Web and Windows development. See Adam's Profile.