Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Oracle Dev Gym Championships!

This year, questions covered Oracle AI Database 26ai features, including JSON duality views, fuzzy matching, and GraphQL queries.

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Oracle Database Winners

1st Place: Andrey Zaytsev
2nd Place:
mentzel.iudith
3rd Place: whab@tele2.at

Andrey’s first place extends his winning streak to four titles in a row! Iudith’s second place marks a well-deserved return to the podium, and whab@tele2.at’s third place is a great effort by one of Dev Gym’s longest-serving players.

Head to the Oracle Dev Gym Leaderboards to view the complete rankings.

Congratulations to everyone who competed. We hope you enjoyed the challenge.

Missed the championships and want to try the quizzes out for yourself? Take the workout to see how you fare:

Special thanks to Kim Berg Hansen and Anthony Harper, for helping to write and review the championship quizzes.

Think you can take Andrey’s crown?

Take the free weekly database quizzes on Oracle Dev Gym. The top 50 players at the end of 2026 qualify for the 2027 championship.

Oracle Database Championship Rankings

RankNameTotal Time% CorrectTotal Score
1Andrey Zaytsev (5)41 m81%6361
2mentzel.iudith (5)41 m77%5988
3whab@tele2.at (4)17 m69%5440
4Vijay Mahawar (5)35 m67%5256
5seanm95 (5)32 m64%5016
6Volodymyr Mukhachov (5)41 m64%4987
7Joao Camilo (5)15 m63%4948
8richdellheim (5)31 m61%4771
9Karel_Prech (5)29 m59%4652
10N Vivekananthamoorthy (1)10 m58%4589
11Ivan Celerin (5)12 m58%4584
12Sandra99 (5)10 m56%4466
13msfadeev (3)20 m56%4430
14Chase Mei (5)30 m56%4399
15JeroenR (5)43 m56%4354
16USER587174 (1)19 m55%4311
17Rakesh Dadhich (5)32 m55%4267
18Raaz Kumar (5)33 m55%4262
19USER561171 (1)37 m55%4250
20Michal P. (5)23 m53%4171
21USER556402 (1)40 m53%4116
22BogusM (2)05 m52%4106
23Oleksiy Ponomarenko (5)19 m52%4061
24alex.diniasi (5)42 m52%3983
25blanko (1)22 m50%3924
26Eriefu (3)14 m48%3826
27Henry_A (5)08 m44%3471
28MarkusId (5)42 m41%3108
29Manfred Kleander (4)44 m39%2976

Championship Performance History

After each name, the quarter in which they played, and the ranking in that championship.

NameHistory
Andrey Zaytsev2021:4th, 2022:1st, 2023:1st, 2024:1st, 2025:1st
mentzel.iudith2021:10th, 2022:7th, 2023:3rd, 2024:14th, 2025:2nd
whab@tele2.at2022:27th, 2024:19th, 2025:3rd
Vijay Mahawar2022:21st, 2023:20th, 2024:5th, 2025:4th
seanm952021:16th, 2023:5th, 2024:22nd, 2025:5th
Volodymyr Mukhachov2021:7th, 2022:22nd, 2023:2nd, 2025:6th
Joao Camilo2021:31st, 2022:15th, 2023:15th, 2025:7th
richdellheim2021:32nd, 2022:20th, 2023:16th, 2025:8th
Karel_Prech2021:14th, 2022:28th, 2023:23rd, 2024:27th, 2025:9th
N Vivekananthamoorthy2025:10th
Ivan Celerin2021:9th, 2022:8th, 2023:11th, 2024:4th, 2025:11th
Sandra992021:6th, 2022:10th, 2023:26th, 2024:24th, 2025:12th
msfadeev2025:13th
Chase Mei2021:12th, 2022:12th, 2023:17th, 2024:8th, 2025:14th
JeroenR2021:15th, 2022:24th, 2023:22nd, 2024:21st, 2025:15th
USER5871742025:16th
Rakesh Dadhich2021:26th, 2022:23rd, 2024:12th, 2025:17th
Raaz Kumar2021:30th, 2022:19th, 2024:16th, 2025:18th
USER5611712025:19th
Michal P.2021:20th, 2022:26th, 2023:10th, 2024:17th, 2025:20th
USER5564022025:21st
BogusM2024:9th, 2025:22nd
Oleksiy Ponomarenko2021:22nd, 2022:11th, 2024:26th, 2025:23rd
alex.diniasi2021:1st, 2022:13th, 2023:9th, 2024:20th, 2025:24th
blanko2025:25th
Eriefu2023:24th, 2024:23rd, 2025:26th
Henry_A2021:33rd, 2023:32nd, 2024:15th, 2025:27th
MarkusId2021:11th, 2022:4th, 2023:27th, 2024:3rd, 2025:28th
Manfred Kleander2022:31st, 2023:19th, 2024:29th, 2025:29th