Tag for Ola Hallengren's scripts?

Question

While I have enough rep to create a new tag, I figured this one was worth asking the community about first before creating it.

There are plenty of questions regarding Ola Hallengren's solution for database maintenance. I was wondering if it makes sense to provide a tag ola-hallengren (or something like that)? This way one could very easily locate questions related to those particular solutions. I realize this would only ever end up on questions tagged with sql-server and possibly database-maintenance. I just was curious if it made sense.

(As an afterthought....would we need his permission to make a tag after his name?)

Answer 1

I don't have very strong feelings about this, but on balance I think it is OK to create this tag.

Some factors that I considered before making that statement:

• We did have an ola-hallengren tag before, but as I recall it was only applied to a very small number of questions. It was auto-deleted when those questions were de-tagged, for whatever reason. I don't believe it was an explicit moderator- or meta-driven action. It just happened.

• We have roughly 50 well-received questions right now on this topic.

• Ola does have an account here, and has been active in the past, but not since August 2015.

  

• Ola may find the tag useful to address support issues, which could help encourage participation.

• The tag seems useful enough for the normal reasons.

• I don't believe we need Ola's permission to create ola-hallengren, but if there is objection, we can act on it accordingly.

• It might be (warning: complete speculation!) that the previous removal of the tag contributed to Ola's decision not to participate here as much. If so (big if), one extra tag seems a small price to pay to potentially help fix that.

If you do decide to add the tag, please do so in small batches (say 5 at a time) with a decent gap in between to avoid flooding the home page with modified questions.