Questions tagged [discussion]
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 looks like a setup, what do I do
It started by my editing a question and adding a tag dolphin-db. The owners/staff tracked me down on linked in and now keep asking me to approve things. They have just asked to approve their tag-...
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To be a bot or not to be a bot
Very interesting.
I have complained about checked not being a bot.
This site is using bots.
Does it occur to anyone, that this may be offensive?
Ok, maybe it occurs to the human contributors, that ...
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Recommendation Letter from DBA StackExchange
Don't know if this forum is the best place to ask, but right now I can't think of any other.
Currently I am in United States and working as a database administrator. I have family members here, who ...
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Aaron Bertrand vanished?
Not to infringe on anybody's privacy, but it's hard to overlook this glaring void. Aaron Bertrand has been prominently visible across the site as one of the leading SQL-Server experts. Recently, it ...
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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Should I ask a question about "how" DAX works in here, or over at Stack-Overflow?
I'm currently learning DAX, and I have an issue regarding the syntax of a function being applied on a filtered table. I think the root question/answer I'm looking at lies in how DAX works, and why ...
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When editing a post should one edit the title to a "proper" question?
I recently edited a post among some minor grammar/format issues and removing fluff I changed the title from
Cannot do a backup of a read_only database
to
Why does the read_only mode fail my ...
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what to do when we find an answer that is not helpful for anyone?
Sometimes I find answers that are not helpful to anyone, but they stay there, hanging around,
I would like to flag them for a moderator to delete them.
I wonder as we have voting for closing questions,...
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how to blur up sensitive information on questions or answers?
as it was just recently the case on this question of mine - I want to show the result of a query, but I cannot show server names and other specific properties that would potentially cause harm.
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Question with a clear error message and an easy fix that was closed as "too localized", likely "not relevant to most of our audience". Reopen or Move?
Could this question How do I avoid error "Request to run job refused because the job is already running" if no job is shown as "running" when I start a chosen step? be reopened or ...
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Burninate [sa], [root], and [administrator]?
Should we burninate (delete) these tags?
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May 6, 2021
root
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May 21, 2020
administrator
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March 13, 2024
Some considerations.
None of these tags has any usage guidance
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Could this question be salvaged? If so, how?
The question Are MSSQL window functions logically redundant? got closed, because it "needs more focus".
Is the question completely unsalvageable (since this stack is about practical problems ...
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Is this an OK question for DBA SE site ? (related to Top mistakes developers make writing T-SQL that lead to performance problems)
I would really like to ask a particular question on DBA SE, in order to collect some knowledge from experienced DBAs and performance tuners, and this way have a good reference for my developers that I ...
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Are questions about problems with DB in container on-topic?
I saw a question on SO and voted for its migration to DBA site, but now not sure if it was a right choice. [I'm not putting a link here to avoid meta-effect].
It boils down to Oracle errors when ...
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Why my post about comparing date is off-topic?
2 weeks ago, I posted this question : Why is it selecting date from another month that requested one?
Few minutes after, I received an answer that proposed a nice way to fix it.
Last hour, this ...
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