Game, Set, and Match

Game, Set, and Match

The tagline of the Game of Set is: The Family Game of Visual Perception. It is a game of finding matching cards in a selected group of cards. Being a SQL guy, I read this as: SET: The GAME of MATCHing cards. In any database we can select SETs using MATCHing criteria. Where is the GAME? Well, for me, it is a game of trying to solve this puzzle using SQL.

You will see how you can use the different SET operators in Oracle, how you can use JOINs to create a SET of cards, from which you can SELECT a puzzle and also find the SETs in that puzzle.

About Patrick

Patrick Barel is a PL/SQL Developer for Qualogy in the Netherlands. Besides working with SQL and PL/SQL he wrote different plug-ins for PL/SQL Developer. He publishes articles on his own blog.
In 2015 he received the Oracle Developer Choice Award in the PL/SQL Category.
In 2019 he was promoted to Oracle ACE Director.
In 2023 he published his first book: Modern Oracle Database Programming.