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Creation of a DBA.SE-flavored Minimal, Complete, and Viable Example page [duplicate]
All too often I see questions that are vague and just outright difficult to understand. I try to send the OPs to Stack Overflow's MCVE page, but that doesn't seem to work often enough and I wonder if ...
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declined very low quality post (-5 votes and deleted)
A flag for very low quality post was declined.
-5 Performance tuning for MySQL database (read only) answered Jul 3
at 15:53 by XXX
With the reason:
declined - flags should only be used to ...
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Is the comment-only answer acceptable?
I've just read a post that's really mundane. It's one of those "just read the error message" type questions. There's an obvious, correct, and incredibly trivial answer I can respond with; ...
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Add Licensing questions as off-topic on help/on-topic page?
I've seen this question covering why we don't need to add an explicit VtC option to covering licensing questions.
However, it would seem to make sense that, if we're going to close questions about ...
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Separate tag for [set-returning-functions]
I noticed that set-returning-functions has been made a synonym of functions. (Paul White♦, Sep 29 at 13:33, if I read https://dba.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms correctly.
I am not too happy with ...
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Is there a redirect bug on migrated questions?
I have spotted a strange behaviour and I think it is a bug. I have found this question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50836364/what-is-the-solution-of-these-errors
I have made it not clickable,...
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Should we allow non-standard alternatives for standard syntaxes?
There are a lot of very minimal things that we can rewrite with the same effect >99% of the time, two of which come to mind are
Non-standard syntaxes for Identity Columns for databases that support ...
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Renewing the "basic" discussion
It was reviewed quite extensively on meta. This debate is years old. Can we get a resolution on this?
I came to the site far after the question was initially presented. In fact, it was already ...
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Is there a limit to ask question per day or per week?
May I know if there is any limit/ restriction on the number of questions posting on this site?
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A "draft-box" facility
Would it be possible for users to have a draft (i.e. save before posting) facility on the site? I frequently find myself interrupted in the middle of answers and am obliged to abandon my efforts and ...
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Pinning/sticking good (canonical) questions/answers to top of board
I was wondering whether it would be a good idea for moderators (based on popular demand) to be able to pin/stick posts at the top of the meta questions list (as is done here).
Two posts that I would ...
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How to edit my question or is it too localized?
I have a question which was marked as too localized. I understand that it looks very specific and I have workaround, but it is unclear the reason why that happens and also someone else can have the ...
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how to ask question to a particular person for example "xxzz" who is as sql server developer
how to ask question to a particular person for example "xxzz" who is as sql server developer. Actually I want to ask a question directly to a person who answered my previous question . Is it possible?
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Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable Example
How can I best ask my question so people will be able to understand it and reproduce the problem if necessary?
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How to rate someone who answered my query?
How to give badges to other . actually I asked a question at you site and I got my answer, now I want to thank him by giving him some rating or badge like that
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Why do people get credited for editing questions?
I am getting very annoyed with people editing my questions for no reason other than to satisfy their own ego. The changes make no material difference BUT mean I have to keep rolling them back.
Why ...
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Should DBA.META.SE Have a Featured And/Or FAQ Tag
Based on Max Vernon's recent Meta Post request for a MCVE Page in the Help Centre on DBA.SE I initially posted an answer with an alternative idea for making information visible. Because I changed my ...
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Add an MCVE section to our help page? [duplicate]
StackOverflow has a great page in their help section on how to create a minimal, complete, and verifiable, example (MCVE).
I think it would be very helpful if we had a similar document showing how ...
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Help me write this query in SQL
I'm trying to get help writing a query from scratch using Structured Query Language, or SQL.
What information do you need from me to get my boss to stop screaming? I've asked all my co-workers for ...
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Is this ageism or acceptable humour?
A recent question on the site, which otherwise uncontroversial, on-topic and interesting (and which has already got two in-depth answers), starts off with an attempt at humour which has resulted in a ...
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Helping new users write good questions
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Some new users struggle to write a good question first time around. We already help in comments (e.g. by linking to helpful resources) but this does not always result in the question being ...
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Tag rename [ansi-sql-standard] to [sql-standard]
The standard, though originally ANSI isn't really ANSI anymore. In fact, I imagine far more people develop it from the ISO/IEC outside of ANSI.
ANSI calls it ISO/IEC 9075-4:2016, and the ISO/IEC make ...
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Should Very Old Questions Remain Open on DBA.SE Even Though They Don't Have Answers
I think the title sums it up quite nicely:
Should Very Old Questions Remain Open on DBA.SE Even Though They Don't Have Answers?
A recent VtC on the following question raised some concern that the ...
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Remove [query] as synonym for [sql]
After Steven's question on ssms I was poking around in the
tags and realized that query is a synonym for sql. This was done in 2012 and since then there has been, if nothing else, a large increase ...
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Rename [ssms] → [sql-server-management-studio]
I would like to propose renaming the tag for SQL Server Management Studio to use the program's full title.
ssms → sql-server-management-studio
Presumably the abbreviated tag name was created before ...
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Should there be a tag for MySQL InnoDB Cluster?
There are a lot of different MySQL tags, but there's no tag for MySQL InnoDB Cluster. So maybe there should be a mysql-innodb-cluster tag?
Also, now that there are two MySQL Cluster products, would ...
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Instructional Q&A to guide new users
I recently self-answered this question because I noticed a lot of questions that seemed to be about parameter sniffing, without users knowing the term for it, or how to provide information that would ...
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Editing other people's answers
I'm new on this forum and I'm learning new things everyday (which is great!), and I am also learning about how to behave on this forum so here's a question about etiquette and all that, specifically ...
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Do we only allow questions written in English?
Based off of como evitar que pgadmin III se desconecte de postgresql cada 15 minutos aproximadamente?
Would you vote to close? Ask to be translated? Let it stay?
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Should hyper link domain be in the body of the text
There have been a number of edits where hyperlink text has been edited to something like
anchors words | target domain
Here is one example, in the first line of the question.
What does the ...
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PostgreSQL RULE tag?
While doing some research for a question, I realized that RULE is a PostgreSQL extension and not part of the SQL standard.
However there doesn't appear to be a tag for RULES on this site, there are a ...
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How was this edit approved?
This edit suggestion appears to have been approved single-handedly by a regular user:
This is the expected effect of using the Improve button. What seems less expected is that the user did not make ...
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How to use the Form - Answer Your Question
There is a button on this form "Answer Your Question" How is this used? and What is its intent?
Is it an option when I come-up with a solution to my own question that I post it?
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Brighter Yellow for CSS Style Element .question-status
I was recently reading a question that was put on hold due to ..... and realised that authors may not be aware that their question is actually in a non-open state.
The information box is displayed in ...
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Format for data - SQL Server
I would like to suggest we have page for how to present test data.
It would need to be product specific.
My object is to be able to run the data against proposed solution(s) with the least ...
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ban from suggesting edits
When I am trying to suggest edit to a question or answer I getting message:
You are temporarily banned from suggesting edits.
Why did it happened and what am I doing wrong?
My editor stats are:
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Why Do Images Sometimes Pop-up and Other Times Not?
Chat Exchange
When images are uploaded to The Heap™ – Consultancy ©® they will be loaded via API to Imgur. The link then gets sent back to the room and inserted into the chat feed. Depending on its ...
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"Shopping List" vs "Does It Exist"?
This question currently has two votes to be closed as a "shopping list" question.
Technically, however, this is not a question as to what among several products is recommended/the best (called out ...
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How to Use Stackexchange Formatting When Revising Questions and Answers [closed]
Every now and then I will stumble across questions and answers that have some weird formatting in the text after having been revised. Or they will have been reasonably formatted text bodies before, ...
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Is this a suitable site to ask about database schema on platforms such as Salesforce?
I've checked some questions such as:
Is it appropriate to ask for database design review here?
Is it appropriate to ask for tips on data architecture here?
And while I can see that database design ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2018 [duplicate]
It's almost February in 2018, which isn't supposed to be the proper time to cycle these, but for this year it'll be once again, so we'll be refreshing the Community Promotion Ads for this year now!
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New mobile navigation got vertical scroll bar
This look not so good in the new mobile navigation. There is an vertical scroll bar.
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Should we have Alibaba Cloud specific tags?
The past few weeks I've seen questions specifically about Alibaba Cloud databases (AsparaDB can function as MySQL, SQL Server, or Postgres) both for the first time and seemingly in waves. I'm not sure ...
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Do we need version specific oracle- tags?
Additional to the tag oracle we have the tags oracle-8i, oracle-9i, oracle-10g, oracle-10g-r2, oracle-11g. oracle-11g-r2
All tags contain the statement
Please also tag oracle for search purposes.
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A convention for RDBMs specific options?
Not sure of the right way to handle this. There are two meanings here,
one of them is sql-server specific and it's the quoted_identifer option, see also "What does QUOTED_IDENTIFIERS do, exactly"
the ...
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Can we tag a user to get his attention?
Is there any way to tag a user to get his attention in some question?
In my case, this question is not getting much attention, so I think people like RolandoMySQLDBA
will be able to guide me. Will ...
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Should MySql be tagged as 'oracle'?
MySql is an Oracle product, too, It seems that sometimes questions concerning MySql database are tagged oracle, e.g. here. I this the intended usage of this tag?
The description of the oracle tag ...
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Should we create a "what is meltdown/spectre and will it impact my SQL servers" question?
Here is the "canonical" question on the meltdown/spectre vulnerability on InfoSec.SE:
Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities
Can I/should I create a related question on dba.SE, perhaps something like, ...
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Suggest tag migration identity -> identity-column
identity is just too vague to be useful as a tag. It refers to Identity Columns, or should. So I think we should migrate it to identity-column (which the SQL spec uses to refer to them).
And also ...
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Why are related / similar questions being closed as duplicates of questions that they aren't duplicate of?
There have now been two questions closed as "duplicate" in the past several days (at least that I have seen) that are definitely not duplicates. Yes, they are similar / related / overlapping, but not ...
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