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Resurfaced independently across 5 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
11
submitters
10
observed span
2012–2020
peak thread · 83 comments
171 pts
latest 20+ return · 2013-10-09
162 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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I played with this for a couple of minutes to see where the boundaries were, and I've gotten 'database already exists', 'internal server error', Apache alerts, random hangs and disconnects, and 'command terminated by administrator'. It's a neat concept, but it needs serious polishing before I'd consider going to this even for quick and dirty testing or demo purposes.

Animus7·171-point thread·

Love it when I go to lunch, just to find out that someone posts my site to Hacker News and it gets crushed. It will be back up and running shortly!

jfeasel·162-point thread·

Thanks to Hacker News for the feedback I received earlier! I have been able to incorporate many of your ideas, and still look forward to hearing more.

jfeasel·80-point thread·

It's interesting that the whole stack behind the service is listed here: http://www.sqlfiddle.com/about.html#source Also the source code is available on Github: https://github.com/jakefeasel/sqlfiddle Disclaimer: I'm not the author and I'm not affiliated with the site in any way.

aram·2-point thread·

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
431

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Total comments
123

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Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2012-02-01SQL FiddleFirst breakout · Best threadsathyabhat17126
2012-03-19SQLFiddle 2.0: Execution Plans, Better UI, client-side SQLite via sql.jsjfeasel8012
2012-04-04MSSQL 2012 now available on sqlfiddle.com; compare features with 2008jfeasel10
2013-03-28SQL Fiddle - like jsFiddle, but for databaseswaffle_ss11
2013-09-25SqlFiddle downarelangi20
2013-10-09SQL FiddleLatest 20+ point returnneokya16283
2013-11-12SQLFiddle.com - Online playground for MySQL, PGSQL, SQLite and MSSQLaram21
2014-01-28SQL FiddleSimpleXYZ20
2014-06-01SQLFiddleevandrix20
2015-01-12SQL Fiddlenetworked60
2020-09-16SQL Fiddle – Test / Experiment with SQL Queries Onlinekiyanwang20