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Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division

Thomas Hsu

Solve criminal cases through the power of SQL queries! Help out the city of Los Zorangeles by becoming a Database Detective in this new (unpaid) work from home opportunity.

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About This Game

There’s been a backlog of unsolved cases piling up in the Minor Crimes Division of the Los Zorangeles Police Department and we’ll need a Database Detective to help solve them.

We’ll need you to analyze clues and manipulate data using SQL, a database querying language, to figure out who perpetrated crimes from as minor as littering to as serious as not checking out of a hotel after the check-out time.

Don’t worry! This role is intended to be accessible for those without any SQL experience, so each Database Detective is given an introductory textbook when they start! This short textbook is less than 20 pages and explains everything that’s needed to solve each case.

If you still have trouble writing queries, our comprehensive error messaging system will tell you exactly where your query went wrong, making it easy to correct your mistakes.

Still not enough? Each Database Detective is assigned an assistant who’s ready to answer any questions you might have, whether they be about the case itself or the SQL queries you’ll need to write!

Understanding how to manipulate data using SQL is not the only part of being a Database Detective! Your job will also require you to piece together evidence and clues, just like a real detective! Further on in your Database Detective career, you’ll have to sleuth through the internet and piece cases together yourself.

Job benefits also include…

  • Fully voice acted mission briefings at the beginning of each case!

  • Fully hand drawn art for you to enjoy!

  • More than 40 websites to explore!

  • 10 cases for you to solve, each case getting longer and more complex!

  • A total of around 8-10 hours of valuable work experience to add to your resume!

Community Activity

  1. Trading Cards and Point Shop Items!

    New Steam Trading Cards! You can now craft your very own badge on your steam profile for Database Detective: Minor Crimes Division using these new trading cards! I wanted these…

  2. Update 1.14.2

    Bug Fixes: Fixed issue where the ending cutscene wasn't loading

  3. Demo Update 2.01

    The demo is now up to date with (most of) the updates from the base game! Also made sure that opening the demo when you have the full game does not delete your entire save file…

  4. Update 1.14.1

    Bug Fixes: Fixed issue where the shift key maps keys to the QWERTY keyboard layout. This was caused by an attempt to fix the shift key not working on the Steam Deck virtual…

  5. Update 1.14 - Query Tabs!

    Now you can tab between queries in the Search Tables window! With this in place, I'm pretty happy with how things are at the moment and will start working on some larger updates.…

  6. Update 1.13

    Took a short two day break - now I'm back fixing bugs! As always, please let me know if you notice any more issues. Update Notes: Gameplay Changes: Changed hotkey to unindent…

  7. Update 1.11 - Mac Fixes

    This update addresses the crashes that happen on Mac when loading the final two cases. Apologies this took so long for the Mac users, this was probably the most difficult bug…

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