What kind of questions can I ask here?
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Database Administration, including installation, provisioning, scaling, replication, migration, tuning, partitioning, clustering, referential-integrity, ddl
Installation
Provisioning
Scaling
Replication
Migration
Tuning
Partitioning
Clustering
Referential Integrity
Altering Database ObjectsDatabase Backup, Restore, Export, Import and ETL
Database Recovery
Data Modelling / Database Design
Advanced programming in server-side languages built into databases, eg:
Stored Procedures
TriggersAdvanced Querying, eg:
Windowing functions
Hierarchical data
Dynamic SQL
Advanced optimization
Pivoting data
and it is not about…
- client-side programming questions (ask on Stack Overflow instead)
- basic SQL questions (ask on Stack Overflow instead)
basic SQL questions (ask on Stack Overflow instead) - career advice, including general workplace issues
- what platform you should learn next, including which technology is better in general terms
- salary or compensation
- résumé help
- what project you should do next
…then you're in the right place to ask your question!