Got a few minutes? Close that dating app and pay attention.
Check out this little SQL swipe quiz: “Well, Actually…” Swipe right if you think the statement is true, left if it’s false, or up if it’s debatable. Your score is tracked as you go.
It’s a fun way to learn random database facts, and show off your guess percentage relative to your coworkers.
It’s especially fun on your phone. Send the link over there for later.
If you wanna run your own version, it’s a free open source WordPress plugin named Well, Actually… and the content was built with the free Nano-GPT provider for WordPress. I’m a huge fan of Nano-GPT, a company that offers a $12/month subscription plan with 60M input tokens per week on popular models like GLM, DeepSeek, Kimi, Gemma, and LongCat. It’s perfect for fast text classification tasks like this. It’s been really fun to watch the swipes start to come in, and see which facts trip people up. For example, I’m right there with the 72% of people who didn’t know that DROP INDEX could drop multiple indexes at the same time until I learned it live from a training class attendee! I love seeing people learn new things from old blog posts in new ways.
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