Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Oracle Dev Gym Championships!

This year the database championships covered features added in Oracle Database 23c, including JSON duality views, the automatic SQL transpiler, and usage domains. As always, the logic competition had a series of puzzles to test players’ reasoning skills.

A chimpanzee holding a winner's boxing belt belt above its head
Photo courtesy of Gratisography

Oracle Database Winners

1st Place: Andrey Zaytsev

2nd Place: Volodymyr Mukhachov

3rd Place: mentzel.iudith

Logic Winners

1st Place: Pavel Zeman

2nd Place: MichalM

3rd Place: MKK

You can view the complete rankings below or on the Oracle Dev Gym Leaderboards.

Congratulations to everyone who played in the championships. We hope you found it entertaining, challenging, and educational. If you weren’t part of the championships and want to try the quizzes out for yourself, we have made the quizzes available as workouts:

Finally, many thanks to our championship quiz authors; their hard work ensured we had high quality questions:

Think you’ve got what it takes to compete with the best and want to take part in the next championships?

Take the free weekly database and logic quizzes on Oracle Dev Gym to qualify. The top fifty ranked players will be entered into the next event.

Oracle Database Championship Rankings

Rank Name Total Time % Correct Total Score
1 Andrey Zaytsev (3) 44 m 86% 5434
2 Volodymyr Mukhachov (3) 32 m 70% 4643
3 mentzel.iudith (3) 40 m 70% 4573
4 Ivan Blanarik (3) 26 m 70% 4536
5 seanm95 (3) 29 m 70% 4527
6 USER424666 (1) 42 m 71% 4524
7 NielsHecker (3) 44 m 70% 4476
8 umir (3) 43 m 67% 4396
9 alex.diniasi (3) 42 m 69% 4357
10 Michal P. (3) 30 m 67% 4357
11 Ivan Celerin (3) 43 m 67% 4314
12 Stelios Vlasopoulos (3) 44 m 66% 4269
13 Jan Richter (2) 42 m 66% 4233
14 Mahamoutou (3) 38 m 66% 4206
15 Joao Camilo (3) 32 m 64% 4101
16 richdellheim (3) 34 m 61% 4011
17 Chase Mei (3) 21 m 60% 3970
18 Harmonic7 (1) 44 m 61% 3892
19 Manfred Kleander (2) 44 m 60% 3892
20 Vijay Mahawar (3) 44 m 60% 3851
21 JasonC (3) 26 m 59% 3745
22 JeroenR (3) 41 m 59% 3735
23 Karel_Prech (3) 32 m 57% 3643
24 Eriefu (1) 20 m 56% 3642
25 USER387689 (2) 28 m 53% 3614
26 Sandra99 (3) 20 m 54% 3555
27 MarkusId (3) 23 m 54% 3462
28 Mike Tessier (2) 35 m 53% 3424
29 Narendra Reddy (1) 25 m 53% 3415
30 RalfK (3) 21 m 50% 3304
31 MichalM (3) 20 m 49% 3182
32 Henry_A (3) 16 m 49% 2987

Logic Championship Rankings

Rank Name Total Time % Correct Total Score
1 Pavel Zeman (10) 19 m 100% 6520
2 MichalM (4) 27 m 100% 6489
3 MKK (1) 29 m 100% 6481
4 mentzel.iudith (11) 30 m 100% 6479
5 NielsHecker (11) 33 m 100% 6468
6 JasonC (11) 42 m 100% 6431
7 Stelios Vlasopoulos (11) 26 m 95% 6194
8 Eric Levin (10) 44 m 93% 5970
9 richdellheim (11) 40 m 84% 5386
10 Vijay Mahawar (11) 44 m 84% 5370
11 Joao Camilo (3) 44 m 82% 5220
12 Kanellos (9) 44 m 82% 5220
13 ted (11) 39 m 80% 5093
14 Ivan Celerin (4) 42 m 75% 4781
15 Craig McFarlane (1) 44 m 75% 4770
16 Michal P. (7) 43 m 73% 4624
17 Henry_A (7) 07 m 68% 4471
18 Sandra99 (11) 42 m 68% 4329
19 BNOUTCH (2) 44 m 68% 4322
20 NickL (10) 44 m 68% 4322
21 seanm95 (11) 42 m 64% 4030
22 Stanislovas (8) 42 m 59% 3731
23 Pete Mohan (3) 44 m 57% 3570
24 Xupeng Zhou (3) 33 m 55% 3466
25 RalfK (10) 44 m 50% 3120
26 GPro (4) 02 m 45% 2990
27 Mahamoutou (4) 44 m 45% 2823
28 N Vivekananthamoorthy (4) 44 m 25% 1470
29 whab@tele2.at (9) 44 m 14% 720
30 HOOTS272259 (2) 1 h 30 m 7% 90

Oracle Database Championship Performance History

After each name, the quarter in which he or she played, and the ranking in that championship.

Name History
Andrey Zaytsev 2021:4th, 2022:1st, 2023:1st
Volodymyr Mukhachov 2021:7th, 2022:22nd, 2023:2nd
mentzel.iudith 2021:10th, 2022:7th, 2023:3rd
Ivan Blanarik 2021:3rd, 2022:18th, 2023:4th
seanm95 2021:16th, 2023:5th
USER424666 2023:6th
NielsHecker 2021:5th, 2022:3rd, 2023:7th
umir 2021:24th, 2023:8th
alex.diniasi 2021:1st, 2022:13th, 2023:9th
Michal P. 2021:20th, 2022:26th, 2023:10th
Ivan Celerin 2021:9th, 2022:8th, 2023:11th
Stelios Vlasopoulos 2021:2nd, 2022:2nd, 2023:12th
Jan Richter 2022:16th, 2023:13th
Mahamoutou 2021:29th, 2022:14th, 2023:14th
Joao Camilo 2021:31st, 2022:15th, 2023:15th
richdellheim 2021:32nd, 2022:20th, 2023:16th
Chase Mei 2021:12th, 2022:12th, 2023:17th
Harmonic7 2023:18th
Manfred Kleander 2022:31st, 2023:19th
Vijay Mahawar 2022:21st, 2023:20th
JasonC 2022:17th, 2023:21st
JeroenR 2021:15th, 2022:24th, 2023:22nd
Karel_Prech 2021:14th, 2022:28th, 2023:23rd
Eriefu 2023:24th
USER387689 2022:25th, 2023:25th
Sandra99 2021:6th, 2022:10th, 2023:26th
MarkusId 2021:11th, 2022:4th, 2023:27th
Mike Tessier 2021:27th, 2023:28th
Narendra Reddy 2023:29th
RalfK 2021:25th, 2023:30th
MichalM 2021:13th, 2022:5th, 2023:31st
Henry_A 2021:33rd, 2023:32nd

Logic Championship Performance History

After each name, the quarter in which he or she played, and the ranking in that championship.

Name History
Pavel Zeman 2014:7th, 2015:1st, 2016:3rd, 2017:2nd, 2018:2nd, 2019:6th, 2020:2nd, 2021:3rd, 2022:3rd, 2023:1st
MichalM 2020:7th, 2021:6th, 2022:2nd, 2023:2nd
MKK 2023:3rd
mentzel.iudith 2013:4th, 2014:18th, 2015:22nd, 2016:6th, 2017:6th, 2018:11th, 2019:18th, 2020:5th, 2021:5th, 2022:6th, 2023:4th
NielsHecker 2013:3rd, 2014:21st, 2015:11th, 2016:27th, 2017:19th, 2018:13th, 2019:3rd, 2020:4th, 2021:4th, 2022:5th, 2023:5th
JasonC 2013:35th, 2014:12th, 2015:26th, 2016:2nd, 2017:9th, 2018:22nd, 2019:23rd, 2020:11th, 2021:10th, 2023:6th
Stelios Vlasopoulos 2013:16th, 2014:29th, 2015:19th, 2016:8th, 2017:1st, 2018:1st, 2019:1st, 2020:1st, 2021:1st, 2022:1st, 2023:7th
Eric Levin 2014:22nd, 2015:36th, 2016:28th, 2017:18th, 2019:11th, 2020:23rd, 2022:27th, 2023:8th
richdellheim 2013:31st, 2014:6th, 2015:8th, 2016:13th, 2017:31st, 2018:10th, 2019:29th, 2020:22nd, 2021:23rd, 2022:23rd, 2023:9th
Vijay Mahawar 2015:27th, 2016:24th, 2017:17th, 2018:17th, 2019:33rd, 2020:13th, 2021:24th, 2022:21st, 2023:10th
Joao Camilo 2022:28th, 2023:11th
Kanellos 2016:26th, 2020:28th, 2021:36th, 2022:18th, 2023:12th
ted 2013:27th, 2015:6th, 2017:14th, 2019:24th, 2020:19th, 2021:9th, 2022:20th, 2023:13th
Ivan Celerin 2020:15th, 2021:29th, 2022:17th, 2023:14th
Craig McFarlane 2023:15th
Michal P. 2017:24th, 2018:23rd, 2019:7th, 2021:26th, 2022:7th, 2023:16th
Henry_A 2014:35th, 2019:38th, 2020:29th, 2023:17th
Sandra99 2013:17th, 2014:19th, 2015:7th, 2016:4th, 2017:10th, 2018:4th, 2019:19th, 2020:24th, 2021:16th, 2022:13th, 2023:18th
BNOUTCH 2022:30th, 2023:19th
NickL 2014:14th, 2015:23rd, 2017:20th, 2018:7th, 2019:35th, 2020:31st, 2021:7th, 2022:10th, 2023:20th
seanm95 2013:24th, 2014:26th, 2015:33rd, 2016:12th, 2017:22nd, 2018:5th, 2019:32nd, 2020:17th, 2021:15th, 2022:8th, 2023:21st
Stanislovas 2016:31st, 2017:26th, 2018:24th, 2019:28th, 2020:25th, 2021:19th, 2022:14th, 2023:22nd
Pete Mohan 2021:14th, 2022:9th, 2023:23rd
Xupeng Zhou 2021:8th, 2022:26th, 2023:24th
RalfK 2015:20th, 2016:15th, 2017:13th, 2018:25th, 2020:14th, 2021:18th, 2022:29th, 2023:25th
GPro 2020:32nd, 2021:30th, 2022:22nd, 2023:26th
Mahamoutou 2021:21st, 2022:16th, 2023:27th
N Vivekananthamoorthy 2020:35th, 2021:31st, 2022:31st, 2023:28th
whab@tele2.at 2015:30th, 2017:33rd, 2018:18th, 2019:8th, 2020:16th, 2021:33rd, 2022:25th, 2023:29th
HOOTS272259 2023:30th