Ghost in the SQL Data artwork$8.99 (−10%)75%
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Ghost in the SQL Data Solve Paris with SQL

A school burned in Paris, and someone called it in 14 minutes before anyone saw the flames. You find the caller by querying a full year of emergency calls in SQL, then pin the proof to your board. A detective game where the magnifying glass is a database.

Is Ghost in the SQL Data worth it?

Ghost in the SQL Data is worth it if…

  • you like detective games where reasoning with data is the whole investigation
  • you want to learn SQL, or practice it on something stranger than exercises
  • you enjoy pinning clues to a board until they join up

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Queries instead of fingerprints

You get a question and a year of calls to the Paris Emergency Switchboard. You write SQL to filter the noise, join the tables, and narrow the list until one row looks back at you. Early cases teach the basics, later ones just hand you the mystery and leave you to it.

You pin results, charts, and notes to an investigator's board and connect them into an answer. One case is the school fire, another a nameless metro ticket, another a crown missing from the Musée d'Orsay. Plain, text-led presentation, comic-book touches, and the quiet satisfaction of a query that returns exactly one name.

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