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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.

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  • I'd leave sql as-is. There are a lot of questions tagged SQL on SO.
    – ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells
    Commented Dec 9, 2011 at 9:43

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Remove

It's too generic to be useful.

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  • Take a look at the 18 questions currently tagged with that. Seems like an appropriate tag to me. Broad but still useful as a categorization field.
    – Nick Chammas
    Commented Feb 21, 2012 at 15:50
  • @NickChammas I don't think so, since configuration is NOT transferrable between RDBMS implementations. You really should at the least have mysql-configuration, sql-server-configuration, etc.
    – JNK
    Commented Feb 21, 2012 at 15:56
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    Tags are categories. You want MySQL configuration questions? You search for [mysql] [configuration]. SQL Server configuration? Search for [sql-server] [configuration]. Works better this way. Why? Because the tags are "normalized". :>
    – Nick Chammas
    Commented Feb 21, 2012 at 16:24
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Delete .

It is too generic to be useful. Most questions tagged with this are better served by .

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    Some DBMS platforms (e.g. SQL Server) have a feature called 'schema'. Re-tagging inappropriate use to 'database-design' is certainly sensible, but 'schema' itself can mean something quite specific.
    – ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells
    Commented Dec 9, 2011 at 9:51
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    +1 for deletion - I'd argue that it is too localized - and that the added complication of the clash with the generally accepted meaning of 'schema' means the bar should be even higher before we accept it as a 'good' tag
    – Jack Douglas
    Commented Mar 23, 2012 at 15:59
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    long conversation in The Heap bookmarked here
    – Jack Douglas
    Commented Mar 23, 2012 at 16:19
  • If you look at the wiki for this tag, it actually could be considered a synonym for database-design. Perhaps we need to come up with two different schema tags, one for design, the other for the logical division of tables within a database?
    – Chris Aldrich
    Commented Mar 28, 2012 at 12:43
  • Isn't [schema] also defined in the SQL standard?
    – Colin 't Hart
    Commented Aug 4, 2014 at 9:39
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