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10 questions linked to/from Renewing the "basic" discussion
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Why Database Administrators?
When I comited to this site, the title was Database.
It suddenly became Database Administrators, why that ?
Talking about database is not only the administration side it's all the task around also.
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Should basic SQL questions be allowed?
I’m going to buck the pervasive mentality here and ask the question:
Why shouldn’t dba.stackexchange.com include basic SQL questions?
Previous related discussions:
How do we ...
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Shall we add a new 'off-topic' reason for questions that are 'too basic'?
We get questions from time to time like this one or the odd 'how do I join two tables' SQL question, which fall short of our 'expert-level'.
Some are best migrated to SO, but for the rest, would it ...
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Beginner's questions (convert Access queries and such)
It seems pretty obvious, having been on this site for a while, that the primary target for this site is database administrators (or people who want to be DBAs, people who love working with databases ...
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A quick thought on splitting from SO
I just wanted to say that it was a not-completely-pleasant surprise to realize that this whole other site for database stuff could be taking questions from SO, and that an area I had earned at least ...
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How 'Off-Topic' can someone go
I was just checking my answer/reply history and noticed Select using a different value than id on join became Closed as 'Off Topic'.
Tag reads "this could be because your code has a typo, basic error,...
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How do we define a question as being "too basic"? Where do we draw the line?
It has been suggested that we close 'true beginner questions' as off-topic on this site.
Where do we draw the line? For example, should this question be closed (I've voted to close it as off-topic, ...
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Closing questions as off-topic when they belong on our site
Over the past couple of days I have noticed questions that have been flagged as needing to be closed or migrated to Stack Overflow because these questions contain code or not direct questions about a ...
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I think that we should encourage more questions!
I saw this question today and it was rightfully put on hold because it was cross-posted to stackoverflow (where it already had an answer anyway).
However, one poster told the OP that "Besides, this ...
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why was this migrated
Why was this post migrated?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13627263/how-do-i-select-a-column-which-is-a-concatenation-of-two-columns-in-the-same-tab
It is similar to questions I would ask - I ...
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