The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Why is this question downvoted so much?
What are the edges of typical (or specific) paid databases like oracle of mysql compared to the free oness?
I understand that there are many good reason to use paid database engine, such as greater ...
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Should questions about database choice be allowed?
I want to ask specific question - what database should I choose for analytics, here's my research of what I know and here is problems that I'm worried about in my case.
This stack part is quite ...
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Should basic SQL questions be allowed?
I’m going to buck the pervasive mentality here and ask the question:
Why shouldn’t dba.stackexchange.com include basic SQL questions?
Previous related discussions:
How do we ...
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Database Administrators Moderator Business Cards
We recently printed some business cards for our Stack Exchange employees and they turned out great.
It got us thinking: our sites' moderators have been working hard to keep our sites high quality for ...
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Should an asker feel pressure to accept an answer when it's not…?
I have a few questions out there that have answers but not really the "right" answer - like SSRS email subscription with custom file name on the attachment, which provided a work-around, and can I add ...
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May I ask database modeling questions that have to do with accounting problems?
The reason I ask is that I asked a database modeling question that was also an accounting question, and it got closed.
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Database Administrators Top User Swag
As a thank you for being awesome, if you are on page 1 or page 2 of …
http://dba.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&filter=all
… we'll be sending you a little care package ...
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Oracle-RAC and RAC Tags
There are questions tagged Oracle-RAC and others tagged RAC. They are both about Oracle Real Application Clusters, so it seems that one should be merged into the other and perhaps a synonym created.
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Are DBA certification questions appropriate?
Not exactly a technical question, but certainly DBA-relevant. Are cert questions acceptable for the site?
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Can we still Twitter our answers out?
I just noticed that the link to Twitter is no longer under the Favorite star of any Question across all my StackExchange accounts.
Was this an oversight ?
Is Twitter being removed ?
Is there another ...
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What to do with very short answers?
Sometimes there are very short anwers for real questions. In the latest example, a working solution was given in a one-liner comment. Now what is the policy/advisable, posting that as an answer ...
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Voting on an Answer to a Closed Question
There was a question that was closed as an exact duplicate back in Jan 12, 2012 : What is the right time to use an ENUM versus a normalized types table in MySQL?
My answer to this Question was just ...
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Make sql-developer a synonym of oracle-sql-developer
Make sql-developer a synonym of oracle-sql-developer. "sql-developer" is ambiguous and people have tagged general development questions with that in the past.
Asking here instead of in the Tag ...
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How do I find X data?
Is Database Administrators a place to ask, "Where can I find public domain data like mailing addresses" etc. Can someone point me to the right direction if DBA is not such a place. Thanks
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how much stuff should be migrated from Stack Overflow?
I ask a lot of questions about SSRS around these parts, and I also Google a lot of SSRS issues. Frequently answers will turn up at Stack Overflow, sometimes on questions that are a year or two old.
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Canonical Answers
After discovering the pot of gold that is ServerFault's What are the canonical answers we've discovered over the years?, I'm inclined to think dba.se could do with the same.
If agreeable to ...
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Blogoverflow Topic Requests! (Summer 2012)
If you have a request for our blogoverflow blog (http://dba.blogoverflow.com) then please put them here, one per "answer", and someone will work on a blog entry on it, I'm sure.
Also see:
Our ...
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Our blog is launched as of this week! (Feedback here please!)
You may remember our topic at
Blogoverflow blog anyone? If you want to help with the DBA.SE blog, here's the signup list?
where we asked for volunteers to help write our blogoverflow blog, ...
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How should 'Have you tried to search'-type comments be handled?
On questions that look like the OP hasn't attempted any research or to try to figure it out themselves, should comments be left to have them try to google (or bing,etc) or otherwise show they tried to ...
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should new users be reminded to accept answers?
(At the risk of sounding like someone overly concerned with her reputation...)
Should new users be reminded to accept answers? In this question - Rewriting a query and eliminating subqueries - the ...
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So who won the 2012 moderator elections?
I have participated in and watched the nomination/election process of our site recently. But now that the election is over, all traces of links to it are gone. It leaves me wondering, "Who won?" I ...
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Should we allow database agnostic 'HowTo' questions?
Example: How to copy complete structure of a table without BACK-UP
The OP was asking how to do something in basically any of 3 RDBMS , and received 3 'correct' answers for each RDBMS.
Should these ...
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2012 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat Digest
The following is a "digest" version of the 2012 Moderator Election Town Hall Chat. The format, as described on Meta Stack Overflow, is one answer to this question for every question asked in the Town ...
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Should we have a tag for MDX? Where do MDX questions belong?
I answered a question today on Stackoverflow that was migrated to DBA.SE. I took a look at the FAQ and see that BI and Data Warehousing are on topic, but basic SQL is not.
The question is basic MDX, ...
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Should 'trivia' questions be off-topic
There is nothing in the FAQ or here on meta that specifically says these questions cannot be asked, and I think some other sites like SO tolerate them to a degree, but perhaps the expert focus here ...
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Should “thanks” and “welcome” comments be removed as “too chatty”?
I often see comments along the following lines:
Thanks!
You're welcome. :)
This is great!
In person, I appreciate these aspects of common courtesy. On Stack Exchange, they are considered ...
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2012 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat: Wednesday at 0:00 UTC / Tuesday at 8pm EDT
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the ...
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Should vague titles be edited to be more descriptive?
It seems like we have gotten a few vague titles lately:
What is the best database design for this situation?
SQL memory usage
Help with this SELECT in the same table (maybe)
If the community ...
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Is my question too basic for dba?
I feel my question Minimizing the number of parent rows for a distinct column in a child table may be too simple for dba. I know it is likely some simple group by logic that I am missing but I feel ...
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2012 Community Moderator Election
The 2012 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three ...
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Should all 'when will xyz be released' questions be off-topic
There is nothing in the FAQ or here on meta that says these questions cannot be asked, but they usually either
are answered with a quick look at Wikipedia
or
encourage pointless speculation
Shall ...
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Meta tags related to tagging need to be merged
Here on meta we have tag, tags, tagging, retagging, and a whole bunch of other, similar tags (search for 'tag') that should be merged into one, preferably tagging.
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Should a tag ever be an adjective?
Do you understand hierachical? How about relational?
It sounds like unhelpful marketing speak.
All our tags should be nouns. Any tags that are not nouns should be renamed as such.
Do you agree?
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questions about the ReportServer database
Are questions about the ReportServer database (the SQL Server database that is the brain of an SSRS deployment) appropriate for this site?
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Stack Overflow Worldwide Meetups 2012: You're invited!
We're having a Stack Overflow meetup to get together with fellow programming, web, and other technology enthusiasts. But not all of our programmers and technology enthusiasts live on Stack Overflow, ...
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Are bumps appropriate?
I have earned the Tumbleweed badge for a question I posed as week ago... and I'd rather have an answer than a badge. :)
Is offering a bounty the only courteous way to "bump" a question? I'm fairly ...
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Change the look?
Is there any wiggle room on us being able to change the look and feel of the main DBA site? It just seems a bit bland, and I think it's a bit hard on the eyes because there is no real contrast.
I'm ...
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Highlight code SQL Style rather than Stackoverflow style
I ask Storing date as integer (numeric), what are the advantages here. Look at the code styling, it does not look that professional and easy to grasp.
Vs
on this site. Notice how the code is ...
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Frequently misused tags - list here
Apropos of this conversation, I'd like to start up a list of frequently mis-applied tags (e.g. schema being used for data modelling questions that should be tagged database-design). Could we please ...
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Help me improve the tags for this question [closed]
I'm not sure what else to tag this question with.
Can someone please help me improve the tags for this question ?
Thanks
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What does a Database Adminstrator do?
Specifically, what makes a DBA different than other IT professionals such as System Administrators and Developers? What does a DBA have to know, be responsible for, and do that merits a separate ...
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Scope, migration and respect for other users
Update: a blog post based on feedback here and elsewhere:
Respect the community – your own, and others’
The history of migration
Stack Exchange has grown considerably over the past few ...
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FAQ Link farm for basic questions on DBA.SE
I'd like to accumulate a link farm of answers to basic SQL questions so we can put a constructve 'see the FAQ' comment on noddy questions when asked on dba.se. Can anyone who feels so inclined add ...
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What is a CleanUp badge?
I am little confused about a certain badge. What exactly is a CleanUp badge?
Does it entail Deleting your own questions?
Does it entail Deleting your own answers?
Does it entail Replacing your own ...
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Search Engine Ranking for this site is goofy
The first result on Google for this search still goes to the Area 51 site. That's not good, right?
Perhaps it's time to setup some 301's on the Area 51?
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Meta-meta. Why Meta.DBA?
At the risk of sounding a bit abstract - thought I'd ask a meta question about meta.
Why do we need meta.dba, rather than simply meta,se?
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How do we promote specific databases (or tag areas) here?
I see a TON of questions and answers for SQLServer, Oracle, MySQL, and even Postgres. I do not see a lot of traffic on DB2. I'm sure some of that has to do with demographics and cost and what not. And ...
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Someone downvoted four of my answers in a short time
I am not sure if this is just a coincidence, nor that it is appropriate on this site. What do you think?
The answers are as follows:one, two, three, and four.
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Separate room for question management
SuperUser and ServerFault have dedicated rooms to manage "vote to close"
I propose one for dba.se too (note: I've already created it as "Vote to Ellipsis") to keep "The Heap" free. Posts about ...
