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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What kind of questions are allowed on Database Administrators ?
When I first committed to DBA, it was generically named as "Databases". Now that we have the private beta up and running - what questions are allowed in here ?
The site name indicates that the ...
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“Database Administrators” needs to die
Every few weeks another sharp poster asks:
Why are you asking DBAs about source control?
Why are you asking DBAs about performance?
Why are you asking DBAs about database design or data warehousing?
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We need to formalize a site title/name. Does “Database Administrators” still ring true?
We had some original thoughts here: Why Database Administrators? but that seems to read more of a "why is this site named this way" and not so much of a "we need this name". So I'm making this thread ...
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Why Database Administrators?
When I comited to this site, the title was Database.
It suddenly became Database Administrators, why that ?
Talking about database is not only the administration side it's all the task around also.
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Opinions about merging the Business Intelligence proposal into this site
Now officially included The scope of DBA.SE has been adjusted to include Business Intelligence and the B.I. proposal has now been closed. Thanks to all concerned.
Edit from JColeBrand - current ...
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2011 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat Digest
The following is a "digest" version of the 2011 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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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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Where to draw the DBA/DB developer line?
I'm a developer with DBA experience.
Sometimes I have questions about indexing, sometimes SQL and sometimes how a C# applications interacts with the database.
Where is the line drawn between what ...
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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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Are DB questions going to be migrated from SO?
Are DB questions going to be migrated from SO to this site? If so, how does that work? Do we have to ask for a specific question to be migrated or do they try to apply some logic based on tags?
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Most of my DB questions are about OODBMS/NoSQL. Should I ask them here, or in Stack-Overflow?
I'm in charge of an OODBMS at work, and am generally mostly interested in NoSQL DB. It seems to me that most questions here are about SQL database. But SQL is just one sort of database, and the ...
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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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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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How long is the beta period and when is it finished?
The area51 Faq at http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq (which I believe to be relevant for dba.stackexchange.com) states that a "site is launched for a beta period to seed it with questions, develop ...
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Design for Database Administrators
I'm Jin, and I'll be working on the designs for the Stack Exchange sites as they graduate from the beta phase. Each site will have its own unique theme that will reflect its topic. However, all sites ...
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Why are database developers' Q&A migrated to DBAs site
The following link is an example:
How SQL Server handles concurrent requests?
Why was it migrated to DBAs site?
I think that at this time such questions get more exposure on stackoverflow. As such, ...
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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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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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Overlap between codereview and dba
Originally database design was included in the overall reviewing on CodeReview.SE. However, now that DBA is here, I'm wondering if those questions would be better here. What do you think?
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2011 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat: Tuesday October 4th, 22:00 UTC / 6pm Eastern
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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Is it really considered 'Clutter' to be polite here?
I am a Newbie here. In other forums, my habit is to close my messages with the signature
"Kind regards
Uwe Hesse
http://uhesse.wordpress.com"
Regarding the automatically attached username, pointing ...
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Beginner's questions (convert Access queries and such)
It seems pretty obvious, having been on this site for a while, that the primary target for this site is database administrators (or people who want to be DBAs, people who love working with databases ...
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Database Administrators logo design
As mentioned on the site design thread, I don't quite understand the purpose of the blue covering (orange earlier) around the logo. IMO, it shouldn't be there.
If it has to be, don't you think the ...
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What content needs to go in the main site faq, the first block?
What information do you think needs to be in the header block of our FAQ?
Check out some of the FAQs of our sister sites:
http://english.stackexchange.com/faq
http://gaming.stackexchange.com/faq
...
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Sets of Tag Taxonomies
Let's develop a set of tag taxonomies here to start looking at tag guidelines. One ontology per answer
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New Design Launched
As you can see the new design just went live. Which means this site has been officially launched! Congratulations! Thank you for your valuable design feedback.
If you're still seeing the old ...
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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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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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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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A quick thought on splitting from SO
I just wanted to say that it was a not-completely-pleasant surprise to realize that this whole other site for database stuff could be taking questions from SO, and that an area I had earned at least ...
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How do we promote our site?
One of the 7 essential meta questions:
This is rapidly becoming a hot issue
across the entire network: how to
promote your site and how to reach out
to the experts and pundits in your
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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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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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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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STYLE GUIDE: Code formatting expectations and when to complain … aka What's Acceptable for Posting?
Ok, so this is a site that's going to have a lot of SQL. We're going to have people posting all sorts of SQL. So the intent of this post is: "What's acceptable and what's not"
SELect * frOM DUAL
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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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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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What should our logo and site design look like?
It's getting close to that time.
The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta
Quoting:
5) What should our logo and site design look like?
This one is pretty straightforward. Solicit ...
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Is this site ready to leave private beta?
Are we sure this site is ready to leave private beta?
Yes there will be an influx of new blood and that will help the site develop, but have we properly defined this site and the types of questions ...
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Migrated questions, quality, and frequency of returning users
I've noticed, at least on the Oracle questions that have been migrated here, that there is either a very poor quality of question or (more importantly) that the user never returns to the site.
Should ...
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2011 Community Moderator Election
The 2011 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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Improving our Stats
Our stats on Area 51 are getting better. 96% of questions are answered, which is excellent, but none of the other stats are better than OK. Here are the values as they stand along with what the ...
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Anyone know any DB2 experts?
We seem pretty well covered for Oracle, SQL-Server and MySQL - but looking at the questions tagged db2 it's obvious that we are lacking anyone regular on the site.
Is there any way we can contact ...
