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Appropriate use of the 'query-help' tag

I agree with Jeff Atwood that all questions are requests for help, so the -help is redundant. The query tag is useful because it at least narrows down the scope of the question. I agree that if mor …
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Frequently misused tags - list here

SQL is frequently misused to mean SQL-Server. I don't think anything but manual cleanup can be done about this.
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Should a tag ever be an adjective?

Some hierachical tags could replace it with hierachical-query, but then similar compound tags would have to be created for those that do not fit this new tag. If a question is just tagged hierarchica …
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14 votes

Should we tag with all terms in a tree?

My answer has changed. See the history for the previous version. Rules: Questions should only have one version tag referring the most specific major version known or applicable. The database pro …
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