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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2013 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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2013 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic ...
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did I not provide a possible answer?
While admittedly so basic I nearly didn't post it, isn't this a legitmate answer to the asker's question?
Oracle UPDATE single record with multiple WHERE conditions
Just want to make sure I'm ...
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What image does our new theme need for the captcha page?
What image does our new theme need for the captcha page?
Pretty simple.
Be creative people!
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Active participation during election
So, I've done it; I've nominated myself for dba.SE moderator.
Unfortunately, I am shipping off to Alaska for SQL Cruise starting May 24th, and from what I understand the election runs through May ...
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2013 Community Moderator Election
The 2013 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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Tag Cleanup - Vote for the following proposed tag changes
There are several proposed tags changes lingering about here on meta. I thought I'd capture them all here, each one as a separate answer, and let people vote on them.
Awaiting Review
make ...
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Can I ask a question about database model?
I have to make a song rating website . Can I ask about the design of my database model at db.stackexchange.com ?
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Should I ask here about an academic paper on indexing?
I'm researching bitmap indexes for an MSc assignment.
A good early paper on the topic is "Bit Transposed Files" by Wong et al, published in 1985.
I find the paper's description of Composite Encoding ...
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Are “Help me with this query” questions on topic?
Are "Help me with this query" questions on topic here or are they 'too localized'?
I have a table, with indexes but the explain seems to indicate that the indexes are not used and I'd like some ...
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Synonyms and Redundant Tags
Post synonyms and redundant tags here (one tag set per answer) for us to ponder and potentially edit out of existence.
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Network Databases - 2
I fail to see why my previous question was closed. I merely asked whether or not there were any free/open source network (IDMS-type) databases, with the implication that, if there were, an indication ...
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Migrate SO questions here and close as duplicate or close at SO?
How to permanently delete a row in oracle forever
This question prior to being migrated to dba.se already had a comment that it was previously answered on dba.se, with a link. However, the close ...
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Should database theory questions be posted here, in cstheory or in cs?
As per title, it doesn't seem to be clear.
As an aside, maybe for similar situations you should add a feature to allow to add a link to the question on the questions pane of the closely related ...
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Can we change the comment-flag system on The Heap chatroom?
Yesterday (April 1st, April Fools Day notwithstanding) we had some high-ranking members of DBA.SE banned from chat by moderators/10k users from other sites that did not take an appropriate amount of ...
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Can We / Should We Strongly Encourage Users to Specify RDBMS on the “Ask” page?
More than most other sites, the majority of our questions require a specific piece of information:
What RDBMS and what version is the asker using?
If it's possible, would it be a benefit to add ...
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Is this the place to ask Memcached performance questions?
I'm attempting to diagnose an issue with my Memcached performance, however there is no tag for "memcache"! Is there a better stackexchange than dba.stackexchange.com to ask my memcache questions?
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How do we define a question as being “too basic”? Where do we draw the line?
It has been suggested that we close 'true beginner questions' as off-topic on this site.
Where do we draw the line? For example, should this question be closed (I've voted to close it as off-topic, ...
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Should there be a data-modeling tag?
I looked at the tags, and noticed that there is no tag for data modeling.
Before I try to add one, (assuming that I can) I'd like to find out whether the community has already thought about such a ...
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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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Are questions about implementation details of a database on topic?
Specific question on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15468735/overview-of-how-mongodb-uses-its-various-threads
In short, the OP is asking about what MongoDB uses it's threads for ...
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Migration makes tags orphaned references
A question, "How to Model Inheritance of Two Tables MYSQL" was migrated to this forum from Stackoverflow. Unfortunately, my answer to that question contained references to three tags that do not ...
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What about Business Intelligence?
I was wondering if Business Intelligence has its lace on this website ?
In Business Intelligence we can see 3/4 domain that are parts of Database Expert :
ETL
Datawarehousing
Data Modeling
...
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How do I include tables with Ascii art lines in my answer?
Some answers on the site like this one and this one include tables drawn with ascii art. Is this done by hand or is there a tool I can use to help me?
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Are questions about “no-SQL” databases OK?
Is it appropriate to ask questions about things like Redis (a data-structure server)?
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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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when should the “SQL” tag be used?
It looks like the SQL tag is used incorrectly for some questions.
Should it only be used when the question is really about SQL? Or is it OK to ask it for a question like:
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Sometimes, an answer is just plain wrong. What to do?
Why "Begin Transaction" before "Insert Query" locks the entire table?
The question above contains outright, no two ways about it, plain old factually incorrect answers. I've ...
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Blogoverflow blog anyone? If you want to help with the DBA.SE blog, here's the signup list?
Blog Overflow blog anyone? If you want to help with the DBA.SE blog, here's the signup list!
What is Blog Overflow?
Why, to put it very simply, it's the StackExchange Community Blogging Site. In ...
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Is MS Access on-topic?
I thought about asking a question regarding triggers in MS Access but wasn't sure if that belonged here or not.
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Whether we should be CAP COPs
A certain user has suggested a boatload of edits recently. The changes have been either largely or completely revolving around the upper-casing of Transact-SQL keywords. For example, a post that ...
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UPSERT synonym for MERGE?
I created a tag upsert (7x) today and wrote a somewhat useful (I hope) tag wiki.
Later I found that there is already a tag merge (15x, no wiki). Would you consider the two synonymous? I can't mark ...
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DBA.SE Xmas caption competition - 'tis the season to be jolly
DBA.SE Christmas caption competition
In the spirit of the festive season, hats and all such matters, we proudly present the DBA.SE caption competition.
The rules are simple: Answer this meta ...
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It's the 14th of January. I still see sleighs
It's the 14th of January. I still see sleighs when people depart from chat.
Christmas is over. When is it due to stop?
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Regarding the author's right to edit his own question
How do I add minutes to a time data type?
This question has spontaneously devolved into an edit war. The author feels slighted. Here is his "closing volley" and then my ruling as a moderator ...
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StackOverflow still has a lot of DBA questions
I am on SO a bit, and about ten times a day I see questions that are purely DBA questions. I flag them every time, but it doesn't seem to be getting better.
What is causing this and what can we do, ...
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Does My Answer Sound Like Product Endorsement?
I just posted an answer to a physical data security question : How to properly secure MySQL database?
As I stated in the question, I normally don't endorse products. Since I posted an answer based on ...
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Should this question have OS/Database tags?
It seems like the question On a dedicated database server, how much memory to reserve for the OS? should be tagged for a particular OS and database. How can the "Best" answer bubble to the top unless ...
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Post Deleted Answer?
The question below has an answer that was down-voted and then deleted by the owner. I was going to post something similar to the deleted answer. Would it be permissible to copy the deleted answer ...
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Are Essbase questions on-topic / within scope on dba.SE?
Essbase is Oracle's BI OLAP product (formerly from Hyperion, formerly Arbor). Is this an appropriate site for questions about Essbase (and other OLAP products for that matter)? Or are we sticking ...
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So what's with the hats thing?
you may have noticed some of our users now have hats around the site, and it might almost be annoying, but we assure you they're all in good fun, and intended to increase site participation!
Here's ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2013
As it is December 2012, we are now going to reset our Community Promotion Ads for the new year. Funny timing, this is exactly 400 posts later.
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 4Q 2011 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Community Promotion Ads - 2013
What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is Going On Here?
TL;DR -- put images and links in the answers. If they get voted up enough, they ...
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Replacing an answer vs. updating an answer
I have answered a question, and based on feedback from the OP, most of my answer needs to be replaced/updated with the revised answer. My question: Should I append the new answer to the existing ...
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Guidelines for question titles
As I start to get more active in making edits and discussing things in the heap, I wonder if we have specific guidelines and thoughts on the title of a question?
In this question, we mentioned that ...
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Is it w̲r̲o̲n̲g̲ to Underline words on SE (specifically dba.se)?
Sometimes, I feel that text can be emphasised a bit more if u̲n̲d̲e̲r̲l̲i̲n̲e̲ or d̳o̳u̳b̳l̳e̳ underlines were allowed? Given that SE's markdown doesn't support it, would it actually be against the ...
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What's up with DBA.SE blog?
I waited for the Blog with anticipation. And I was especially excited to articles about data warehousing (since I am moving in that direction and want to learn all I can about it).
But then something ...
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why was this migrated
Why was this post migrated?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13627263/how-do-i-select-a-column-which-is-a-concatenation-of-two-columns-in-the-same-tab
It is similar to questions I would ask - I ...
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What to do about one-liner answers?
Sometimes really short answers get posted on the site, and some users (even well established users) do so regularly. Both users and mods have taken action to show our disapproval including:
...
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Do We Want Hats™?
In 2011, the Gaming Stack Exchange hosted an event called Hat Dash, where users earned "hats" for their gravatars by completing certain tasks (analogous to badges):
Certain actions would trigger ...
