I like it! Very fun! Few ideas:

- The "submit" box isn't clear on whether it needs the name or the suspect id for the first case

- It would be nice to have a "copy to notes" button in the output

- It would be nice to have some docs on what functions are available / which dialect this is.

I think this very valuable, it's so much more easy to learn if you actually have a small project to work on

This is super fun!

One small thing which would be nice is the ability to just download the sqlite database myself so I could use my preferred application to query it, and just use the site for the brief, notes and submission.

Also a nitpick, while you say it's for "learning" SQL, I would probably expect something a little more guided, or at least some example queries, if the intention was to teach SQL. As it stands, if you don't know SQL you're probably going be completely lost as to what you should be doing. It's really cool, just not specifically as a learning tool.

A great addition to a field where there aren't many offerings: SQL Island (https://sql-island.informatik.uni-kl.de) and SQL Murder Mystery (https://mystery.knightlab.com) come to mind. The mechanism of SQL Noir is close to that of the latter, i.e., an undirected, essentially standalone adventure. I myself am working on SQLab, a SQL game engine that allows you to augment an arbitrary base with exercises on that base to produce directed, standalone adventures: https://github.com/laowantong/sqlab. You download a dump of the database (currently MySQL, SQLite, Postgres), and can play under any administrator interface. On the same page there's a link to the long police investigation I designed for my (French) students. If you're a teacher or researcher in the field, the principles of SQLab are explained here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16120.

This gives me a childhood flashback to a show called MathNet, an educational police procedural (a la Dragnet) where both investigators have holstered calculators.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathnet

Love this! The style is unique and awesome.

I see the beginnings of a really fun way to learn / practice / remember SQL.

A few notes:

- Would be cool if it was a single workspace (no tabs). Was constantly switching tabs back and forth.

- Saving previous SQL queries and results would be cool. I was copying results into the notes. Feel like this is important as things get more complex.

Excited to see where you take this!

The idea is good, but the UI is all but immersive.

Things that would it make more immersive:

- autocomplete

- and/or the ability to view the schema alongside the query (on a wide enough screen)

- a way to copy table and column names easily with a click (table names cannot be selected at all!)

- ability to just add more queryies under/over the already executed ones, instead of only being able to replace them.

Wow what a great idea, I had fun solving the cases. I think maybe a comic version would help junior programmers. The SQL editor sometimes behaves strangely and does not allow correct writing. Thanks

The editor behaves weirdly when I try to add comments.

It's hard to explain, but you can reproduce like this:

1. Write several lines, for example:

  select i.*, s.*
  from interviews i
  join suspects s
  on s.id = i.suspect_id

  -- select i.*, s.*
  from interviews i
  join suspects s
  on s.id = i.suspect_id



  -- select i.*, s.*
  -- from interviews i
  join suspects s
  on s.id = i.suspect_id

When I was in university, my instructor linked something like this for SQL practice (a crime solving minigame, just like this one).

I remember getting really into it, even going to the extreme of trying to find the most efficient one-liner solution.

Thanks for making this. I’ll be passing the torch by linking it to anyone interested in learning SQL.

This is pretty fun, I tried the two free mysteries and was fun solving them. One nit, would be nice if the SQL editor supported comments so we can comment out old queries before running new one so as keeping a history esp if we need to run the same queries again. Good stuff :)

reminds me of https://mystery.knightlab.com/

Really cute. But I really want the ability to put the different tabs -- Brief, Workspace, Schema -- side-by-side. I know SQL and wanted to play with this, but the UX was frustrating enough to drive me away, even though it is really pretty.

This is really lovely. It makes me happy that you invested time into building this for other people.

On case #4: select * from phone_records where caller_id= 11 or recipient_id = 11

The results header is screwed up, there is an extra 'id' column. At least on firefox.