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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.

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It has been a great privilege to serve this amazing community as moderator. Thank you

Jack, as the person that thanked me for my first few answers & encouraged me to join The Heap, I'd like to thank you for the time you have invested in DBA.se & also for the work you have put into dbfi …
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Migrated questions, quality, and frequency of returning users

I've noticed, at least on the Oracle questions that have been migrated here, that there is either a very poor quality of question or (more importantly) that the user never returns to the site. Should …
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Documentation beta

I see that the Documentation Beta is now live. Is this going to get pushed to DBA.se at any point, or is it going to only live on Stack Overflow?
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DBA.SE Xmas caption competition - 'tis the season to be jolly

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New tag for Oracle Database Appliance?

I've just tagged both of your questions with oracle-database-appliance. Welcome to the site!
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What kind of DB diagram is the menu at the top of the page?

It's a load of CSS and HTML, so it's actually off-topic for this site.
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Tag suggestion: mtime-row

I commend your efforts, but they're misguided. Whilst the concept translates to the RDBMS world, the terminology doesn't crossover from filesystem to databases in this instance. The audit tag and it …
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StackOverflow still has a lot of DBA questions

Another thing to consider is "will I get a better quality answer if I migrate?" The answer is yes, without question. There is less noise here, and existing answers are more likely to be scrutinised r …
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It's the 14th of January. I still see sleighs

It's the 14th of January. I still see sleighs when people depart from chat. Christmas is over. When is it due to stop?
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Why was question closed without any consideration around the content?

All my fault. I missed: I would accept that answer if it didn't work perfectly with another server of the same version already ... so you can blame me :-) That part completely changed the que …
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Can We / Should We Strongly Encourage Users to Specify RDBMS on the "Ask" page?

I'll chime in here, seeing as I started the original discussion on chat. I think that the message is a good idea, but enforcing a base RDBMS tag (Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, DB2. …
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