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Do we accept database comparison questions or are they offtopic?
This is not the same as: Should we allow, even encourage, "feature comparison style" questions?
Do we want to support questions such as:
MySQL vs MariaDB
Postgres vs MySQL
Oracle vs MSSQL
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Should 'trivia' questions be off-topic
There is nothing in the FAQ or here on meta that specifically says these questions cannot be asked, and I think some other sites like SO tolerate them to a degree, but perhaps the expert focus here ...
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Is DBA a place for homework questions?
Is asking homework questions allowed or should it be allowed/tolerated in dba.stackexchange.com? Is there a guideline for this in stackexchange?
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Are licensing questions within our scope?
I noticed Server Fault preemptively posted a dummy question explaining that they don't give licensing advice, as you really need to figure out licensing with the company granting the license. They use ...
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Are questions about "no-SQL" databases OK?
Is it appropriate to ask questions about things like Redis (a data-structure server)?
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What about business intelligence?
I was wondering if business intelligence has a place on this website. In business intelligence, we can see three or four domains that relate to database expertise:
ETL
Data warehousing
Data modeling
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