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Should I vote to "move to Stackoverflow" on SQL questions?

I often encounter questions that ask for help with writing SQL, and I usually vote to move them to Stackoverflow, because that is about programming in my book. But I have the feeling that mine is not ...
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Old questions showing recent activity

Why do some questions come to the top of the active list when nothing seems to have been changed? Example question:Old question without noticeable activity
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Are trivial questions 'too localized'? Any need to improve respective close reason message?

Update: I've deleted my answer on the referenced question. Now, it can be purged by delete votes or the Stack Exchange Roomba. I would like to understand better why How to upgrade pgAdmin 4 version 1....
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Unable to add comments for posted question due to javascript error

I'm able to post any question but sometimes unable to add comments to the answers posted and below error message is displayed on the top of the screen. Database Administrators Stack Exchange ...
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How to delete a question I posted?

I want to delete a question which was posted by me a week before. How do I delete this or who can assist in deleting the question? I have posted a question long time back and still couldn't able to ...
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why only 5 tags per question?

after adding the database engine, for example sql-server and then adding the version for example sql-server-2016 there are only 3 extra tags you can add to a question. often when asking questions I ...
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What should I do about an old question that I'm not interested in finding an answer for?

I posted the following question about a year ago: DB2 Query Error SQL0204N Even With The Schema Defined It went unanswered and I have since stopped using DB2. I don't even have DB2 installed any ...
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Are Couchbase questions on topic?

I noticed that there was no tag for Couchbase and only a small number of questions mentioning it. So are Couchbase questions on-topic for this site - dba.SE (it which case it'd be lovely to get a tag)...
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Guidelines for question titles

As I start to get more active in making edits and discussing things in the heap, I wonder if we have specific guidelines and thoughts on the title of a question? In this question, we mentioned that ...
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What to do with very short answers?

Sometimes there are very short anwers for real questions. In the latest example, a working solution was given in a one-liner comment. Now what is the policy/advisable, posting that as an answer ...
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Are these actual calcutated numbers?

When I look at link to aerea 51 I see some numbers which ate obviously actual e.g. days in beta and currently 26 users with 200+ rep. But questions per day shows 7.9 and that seems to be too low. ...
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What happens after the first one votes for close?

Will moderators or high reputation users get a message or waits the system silently until the necessary number of close votes is reached ?
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How where the current temporary moderators determined?

Today I notices that we must have some moderators on this site, as on of the questions was closed. So by now we know some or most of the current moderators. How did they become moderators?
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Are DB questions going to be migrated from SO?

Are DB questions going to be migrated from SO to this site? If so, how does that work? Do we have to ask for a specific question to be migrated or do they try to apply some logic based on tags?
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