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Burninate the [dba] and [database-administration] tags?
Yes dba should be burninated because it...
Isn't useful to connect experts in a topic area to questions they can answer
Doesn't help describe the content of the question
Doesn't add any meaningful ...
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Burninate the [dba] and [database-administration] tags?
Yes database-administration should be burninated because it...
Isn't useful to connect experts in a topic area to questions they can answer
Doesn't help describe the content of the question
Doesn't ...
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Policy Change : Disallow unregistered users from asking/answering questions?
From my own perspective of site moderation for a period of time now:
I can say my strong impression is that questions from unregistered users are much more often lower-quality, and not improved on ...
Paul WhiteMod
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Privileges vs Permissions
Yes.
privileges (141 questions) should be a synonym of permissions (381 questions).
The privileges tag should also be merged into permissions.
I have added the synonym and performed the merge now.
Paul WhiteMod
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Let's burninate the SQL tag!
I agree.
The sql tag is just too generic.
Having the following tags should be sufficient enough to tag questions correctly with whatever Structured Query Language Dialect/Programming Language is ...
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Should [database-restore] be a synonym of [restore]?
Yes, I think it should, thanks for bring it up.
I've done the merge and created the synonym: https://dba.stackexchange.com/tags/restore/synonyms
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12
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Split the "master" tag?
master is a bad tag so we should remove it.
For replication, the following new tags might be good replacements (with the appropriate usage guidance for each):
master-slave-replication
master-master-...
Paul WhiteMod
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12
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Remove [query] as synonym for [sql]
Yes
The only justification for the synonym I could find was in the answer to Why is "query" a suggested synonym for "sql"?:
Simply because when the site was young, we repeatedly ...
Paul WhiteMod
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Please can we have markdown tables on dba.se
status-itshappening
We're rolling out markdown support for tables here and on Meta Stack Exchange. Full details are in this announcement on MSE. Please play around with the feature and let us know if ...
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Community has 5 rep?
We try to never let the bots earn rep, but this one became sentient. I challenged Community to a battle of epic proportions and removed the extra 4 reputation by force. Lesson learned: never trust ...
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Corrupted migration?
This has been resolved. We were performing some testing on Post Notices and in doing so we found this bug in the migration process.
This bug has been fixed and there should be no more weird ...
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Merge crosstab tag into pivot
Yes, crosstab should be a synonym of pivot and merged.
Any product-specific differences are indicated by the product tag.
Update
A synonym has been created.
crosstab has been removed from 9 questions.
...
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Reinstate the default close reason?
Yes!
Add a new custom close reason using the default close reason as a template.
8
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Let's burninate the SQL tag!
The sql tag has now been burninated.
It has also been blacklisted.
(technically, marked intrinsic, so inbound migrations are not blocked; the tag is removed during migration).
Thanks to everyone ...
Paul WhiteMod
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Issues about the [unique-key] (sic) tag and its synonyms
Originally, unique-key was set as the master for unique-constraint and unique-index because it was by far the more popular tag, and the only one with any usage guidance.
There may be semantic ...
Paul WhiteMod
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7
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Remove the dash from [tag:big-table]
Would it be possible to remove the dash?
Sure. Renamed big-table to bigtable for you.
Paul WhiteMod
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7
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Policy Change : Disallow unregistered users from asking/answering questions?
Requiring a user to register doesn't actually add that big of a barrier for new users to ask questions and to provide answers. It also doesn't do much to encourage them to play by the site rules.
...
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Burninate the [dba] and [database-administration] tags?
These tags are gone, and cannot be recreated; they're marked "intrinsic" so as to allow inbound migrations, but cannot be used on questions here.
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7
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Tag rename [ansi-sql-standard] to [sql-standard]
sql-standard seems to be more general.
I suggest we make both ansi-sql-standard and iso-sql-standard synonyms to sql-standard. ANSI and ISO have both been associated with the standard and I've seen ...
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6
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Nuke 'sp_askbrent' tag
According to First Response Kit is missing sp_AskBrent, this procedure was renamed to sp_BlitzFirst.
I removed sp-askbrent from a few questions that needed editing anyway, then made sp-askbrent a ...
Paul WhiteMod
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5
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Please add a tag for Google BigQuery
Ok. I have added this tag with the SO description as a starting point and added it to the linked questions.
Paul WhiteMod
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5
votes
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A [hint] for a tag synonym
Yes.
If this answer wins, we'll make query-hints a synonym of hints and merge.
Update: this has now been done.
Paul WhiteMod
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5
votes
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Tag merge request osx -> mac-os-x
Done
updating post history, 16 rows affected (pipe delimited)
updating posts, 15 rows affected (pipe delimited)
updating PostTags associations, 14 rows affected
updating Documentation tag proposal ...
jcolebrandMod
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Tag rename [ansi-sql-standard] to [sql-standard]
ANSI References in 2018
There are still strong references to the "ANSI" standard as can be seen in the following excerpt from a page in the Oracle 12c documentation:
(Emphasis by me)
ANSI ...
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5
votes
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Separate tag for [set-returning-functions]
Ok:
set-returning-functions is no longer a synonym of functions.
table-valued-functions is no longer a synonym of functions
table-valued-functions is now a synonym of set-returning-functions as ...
Paul WhiteMod
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Let's burninate the SQL tag!
I am both for and against this proposal, so ±1 🙃
For / 👍 / Agree / 😺
Yes, the sql tag by itself is currently quite ambiguous. And not just because it's what you ...
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5
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Please help us delete the SQL tag!
The retagging exercise is now completed!
Huge thanks to everyone that took part.
Burnination of sql has been requested and will be tracked on Let's burninate the SQL tag!
Paul WhiteMod
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5
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Can we merge the tag [database-trigger] into the tag [trigger]?
Yes this seems like a good idea.
Paul WhiteMod
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5
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Are we on the same page with [pagination] and [paging]?
Yep I agree with this. Will wait a while to see what other feedback comes in.
I have made pagination a synonym of paging for the moment, but that is easily swapped.
There were no objections, so I ...
Paul WhiteMod
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Are we on the same page with [pagination] and [paging]?
I would agree that pagination is the correct term. With out additional context, when I hear paging, my first thought goes to memory paging to disk, not a subset of rows being returned to a webpage.
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