Regular readers of this blog are familiar with NuoDB and their generous offers for SQLAuthority.com readers. I was just talking to them earlier and together we have come up with a very interesting contest for all of us.
This contest has two parts. Part 1 Identify Database Personality and in Part 2 You have to identify the size of the NuoDB installer. You have to answer both the questions to eligible to enter in the contest.
Part 1: Identify Database Celebrity
Personality 1 – He is known as the father of Relational Database
Personality 2 – He has received the Turing Award “for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation.”
Personality 3 – He invented the NuoDB Emergent Architecture, and developed the initial implementation of the product.
Part 2: Identify NuoDB Samples Database Names
Download NuoDB for Linux or Mac and install the software. Run the Quick Start sample app. Tell us what the four tables in the sample Hockey database are called. Download NuoDB Here.
Contest Details
The contest will be open till September 25th. The winner will be announced before September 30th. Remember there are only two gift cards each worth USD 100. All the valid entries will be hidden till September 25th. You must give correct answer to both the questions.
Reference: Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)
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Edgar F. Codd, Jim Gray and Jim Starkey. Hockey, Players, Scoring, Teams
Hi Pinal,
All the names are available when you right click the image and save as in your webpage!
I am not sure whether those are correct.
You found the hidden hint!
1.E. F. Codd
2. Jim Gray
3. Jim Starkey
The Legends in the pictures are:
1. Edgarr F Codd
2. Jim Gray
3.Jim Starkey
Tables in Sample Hockey Database are:
HOCKEY
MASTER
SCORING
TEAMS
Personalilty 1. Boyce Codd
Personality 2. Jim Grey
Personality 3. Jim Starkey
Default Tables for Hockey Schema
1. Hockey
2. Players
3. Scoring
4. Teams
Hi,
I gave the below Answers for Identify the Database Celebrity (part1)& Identify NuoDB Samples Database Names(part2)
Part1:
Personality1: Edgar F. Codd
personality 2: James Nicholas “Jim” Gray (Full name: “James Nicholas Gray” )
Personality3: Jim Starkey
Part2: 4 tables in the Hockey database are
MASTER
HOCKEY
SCORING
TEAM
Thanks&Regards
Rajeswari
personality 1 : efcodd
personality 2 : jimgray
personality 3 : jimStarkey
Edgar F. Codd
Maurice Wilkes
Jim Starkey
Part 1: Identify Database Celebrity
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Edgar F. Codd (no need Identification!!!)
Jim Gray (computer scientist)
Jim Starkey, founder and CTO of NimbusDB
Part 2: Identify NuoDB Samples Database Names
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NuoDB installation file is of size 78.2 MB for [MacOS 10.7 or higher] Platform.
NuoDB installation file is of size 153 MB for [Windows (64-bit) Inc/32-bit clients] Platform.
NuoDB installation file is of size 110 MB for [RHEL 5.9 & 6.x (64-bit) SuSe Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp2 (64-bit) openSuSe 12.x (64-bit) Amazon Basic EC2 (64-bit)] Platform.
NuoDB installation file is of size 110 MB for [Ubuntu 11.10 & 12.x (64-bit)] Platform.
NuoDB installation file is of size 110 MB for [RHEL 5.9 & 6.x (64-bit) SuSe Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp2 (64-bit) openSuSe 12.x (64-bit) Amazon Basic EC2 (64-bit) Ubuntu 11.10 & 12.x (64-bit)] Platform.
NuoDB installation file is of size 53.1 MB for [Solaris 11 (x64) Joyent Smart OS (Supported Release: 1.0.1)] Platform.
Personality1: Edgar F. Codd
Personality 2: James Nicholas “Jim” Gray (“James Nicholas Gray” )
Personality3: Jim Starkey
Part2: 4 tables are
MASTER
HOCKEY
SCORING
TEAM
Part 1)
Edgar Codd
Jim Gray
Jim Starkey
Part 2)
Hockey
Players
Scoring
Teams
1 ) Edgar F. Codd
2 ) Jim Gray
3 ) Jim Starkey
:) Thank you, learned something new
Part 1
1. “Edgar F. Codd” – Father of Relational Database
2. “Jim Gray” – awrded for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation
3. “Jim Starkey” invented NuoDB Emergent Architecture
Part 2
HOCKEY, PLAYERS, SCORING and TEAM
Dear Pinal,
Below are the answers :
Answer1 : EF “Ted” Codd
Answer2 : Jim Gray
Answer3 : Jim Starkey
Sample Hockey database contains these four tables : Master, Hockey, Scoring and Team
Thanks,
Vishwas
first EF codd
second jim gray
third jim starkey
Part 1 – Identify the Database Personality
Personality 1 – Father of Relational Database – Edgar F. Codd (Dr. E.F. Codd)
Personality 2 – Turing Award Recipient – James Nicholas (Jim) Gray in 1998
Personality 3 – NuoDB Emergent Architecture Inventor – Jim Starkey
Part 2 – Identify NuoDB Samples Database Names
The QuickStart application creates the four tables under HOCKEY Schema in the test database. They are,
HOCKEY
PLAYERS
SCORING
TEAMS
Part 1
1. “Edgar F. Codd” – Father of Relational Database
2. “Jim Gray” – awrded for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation
3. “Jim Starkey” invented NuoDB Emergent Architecture
Part 2
HOCKEY, PLAYERS, SCORING and TEAM
Dear Pinal,
Below are the answers :
Answer1 : EF “Ted” Codd
Answer2 : Jim Gray
Answer3 : Jim Starkey
Sample Hockey database contains these four tables : Scoring, Team, Master and Hockey.
Thanks,
Raj
Part 1
Personality 1 – Edgarr F Codd
Personality 2 – Jim Gray
Personality 3 – Jim Starkey
Part 2
Tables in schema HOCKEY
1. HOCKEY
2. PLAYERS
3. SCORING
4. TEAMS
Personality 1- Edgarr F Codd
Personality 2- Jim Gray
Personality 3- Jim Starkey
Tables in schema HOCKEY
HOCKEY
PLAYERS
SCORING
TEAMS