Can we have  applied by default

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I mean can we have  applied by default to all posts where no highlighting is specified of course.

I note this would make us different from the rest of SE [edit: or possibly not], but on a site like this I think a SQL default makes sense.

The alternative is we go through and set the default highlight on every major tag.

I agree. Especially as it's clear that we will have to update every new tag with the proper default language, even if it matches an existing pattern that should have an obvious default, e.g. when SQL Server 2015 comes out. — Aaron Bertrand, Commented Aug 15, 2012 at 18:24
Although the markdown renderer doesn't have explicit MDX support I had to coerce the language to sql to get a snippet of MDX to render correctly — ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells, Commented Aug 15, 2012 at 19:30
I like the idea! Syntax highlighting language hints on SO-meta as a reference. — Erwin Brandstetter, Commented Aug 17, 2012 at 19:09

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I've enabled this, but there are some caveats, so please keep them in mind:

The default highlighting language is SQL. NOT auto-detect. If you ever want some other kind of syntax highlighting, you'll need to specify it explicitly (using the comment hint) or adjust the tag defaults accordingly.
Syntax highlighting is enabled by default. So in places where you're using code blocks simply for the fixed-width spacing, you'll want to turn it off explicitly using the comment hint:
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answered Oct 23, 2012 at 22:24

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