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We have RDBMS tags such as mysql and sql-server but should we only allow tags like this with the version appended? sql-server-2000 mysql-5.6

The reason I bring this up is the features and behavior of these applications change over the years so a correct answer for sql-server from a couple of years ago that is high on the google search results may now be lacking details of subsequent additions on the latest versions.

If the answer was for a specific version of the product then it would still be a complete answer in years to come.

Or should we be retrospectively going over old questions about features that have changed and only had a version-less tag to add answers that cover the changes. If so what would be the best way to do this?

An example would be a sql-server answer explaining how sql-server can update statistics on a partitioned table. The inclusion of incremental statistics adds an extra element to add to any answer from before the release of sql-server-2014

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    Thanks James - there has been a similar discussion before: meta.dba.stackexchange.com/a/82/1396. I think we need to keep the top level tag too because it's used for favourites, Google searches and so on.
    – Jack Douglas
    Jun 1, 2015 at 10:38
  • OK so would you recommend adding new answers to old questions where updates to the RDBMS in question have caused an old answer to be incomplete?
    – James Anderson
    Jun 1, 2015 at 11:37
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    Ideally all questions would be tagged with the version the OP is using as wall as the RDBMS, so it wouldn't be an issue - in cases where it isn't, I'm not sure - do you have an example in mind?
    – Jack Douglas
    Jun 1, 2015 at 13:13
  • No I was just thinking about how to keep answers at a high quality as the years go by. Didn't consider the SEO side of it though
    – James Anderson
    Jun 2, 2015 at 19:42

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