Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division

Absolutely love it, british style humor, good learning curve on the SQL, focus on the puzzle solving rather than SQL crafting. EDIT: after completing the game, I can for sure say it's an amazing game. Now to hunt for the achievements!

fun way to blast through my personal time after a day of navigating databases at work :)

I picked this game because I needed to learn a bit of SQL for my dayjob. I feel like by about mission 7 I already knew everything I needed to know about SQL and I was starting to feel reasonably comfortable with its syntax, but the game kept going. And man, those cases escalated way beyond SQL lessons into being genuinely pretty complex investigations with a sprawling network of clues that you have to piece together. By mission 8 or so I felt like clues that you can obtain just by constructing an SQL query were easier to find than those which required reading in-game wikis, hacking and browing the in-game internet, especially considering many of those clues are hidden where you don't exactly expect them. Cool game, but it gets pretty challenging in ways that have little to do with SQL.

This is just my job. Why am I playing a game that is just my job? 11/10

Gibt einem ungefähr 5-6 Stunden Spaß mit Daten, insgesamt eine sehr angenehme und entschleunigte Puzzle-Erfahrung, die einsteigerfreundlich am Anfang, aber nach hintern heraus durchaus fordernd wird

Great game that exposes how little I do actually know about SQL queries. I'm having a hard time getting a grasp on using self-joins for case 8. It's a frustrating experience being stuck in a case, but it's humbling too. I avoid using chatgpt because that would be cheating, the bad thing is, it took me around 7 hours to figure out case 7 and it's taking me like 3 hours on case 8. I do recommend it. Is part SQL part puzzle. Very fun and rewarding when I actually figure it out. Each case is exponentially harder than the last. Be ware.

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This is a big ask but I think I should get a certification, from not understanding SQL to knowing some SQL and I feel like I got a whole lesson on SQL where is certification (also omg achievements, how do i unlock them all aaaa)