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Is it appropriate to ask for database design review here?
There's codereview stackexchange to ask to get.. well your code reviewed :D. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be anything equivalent for database reviewing.
Would it be appropriate to put ...
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Target for Hyperlinks in questions and comments
Is it possible to set the default target for hyperlinks provided in questions and comments to new window (target="_BLANK").
I don't know that this is done on SO or any other SE site, and could just ...
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I cannot see my details in the dba.stackexchange site also unable to post. Other stacks are fine [closed]
I'm not seeing my username at the top of the website and cannot post
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Can someone please explain to me why my question is unclear?
my question: Importing delimited files into SQL server
The point of this question is to say that I do not want to specify the types and sizes for all the columns manaully. There are too many, and it ...
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Automatically add the versionless RDBMS tag when needed
In this meta post there was an apparent agreement on that we should have questions tagged not only with the actual version of the relevant RDBMS (like postgresql-9.1) but the versionless tag (here ...
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On link-only or link-mostly answers
As a community we can decide how we should handle link-only or link-mostly answers, possibly in a different way than SO does (and that is a constantly / moving / target / anyway). I'm not even clear ...
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Dealing with SQLServerPedia link-rot
Last week I posted a question on meta.SO about SQLServerPedia link rot. Essentially, all of the links we have here on dba.SE that point there are dead - they either go to a 404 page or the front page ...
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Possible bug in data
Can someone take a look at this question?
I can honestly tell you that I do not recall ever answering this question. As well, per the comment, it has no relation to the question what so ever.
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Should there be an entity-relationship tag?
In the last few months, more and more database-design questions have been migrated over here to dba. There is an entity-relationship tag over in SO. It's widely used, and I think usefully so. ...
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Preference setting for being notified of unanswered questions
I happen to just look at my profile page and check the questions I have asked in the past. I usually try to do this every so often to make sure I don't leave any questions I have asked with no marked ...
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No comment option?
A few minutes ago I visited this question on the main site:
How to design index for faster deletes
Link as it appears in my browser (IE8). I could not for the life of me see a comment option to ask ...
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Can we have an Off-Topic > Belongs on StackOverflow option?
I'd like for our users to have the ability to vote to close as off-topic > belongs on Stack Overflow. Almost all of our migrations have gone there and, unfortunately, the current process is confusing. ...
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Floating dialogs get clipped and appear way off-center
When I vote to close one of my own questions here on dba.SE meta, or on dba.SE, the dialog is off-center and clipped. This does not happen on our main site or on any other site in the network as far ...
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Action line spreads across two lines when too much going on
Pretty simple, mods see disruptive line breaks when we view a question that has been edited, has a pending suggested edit, and has at least one vote to close. The result is the vote to close count is ...
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Minor clipping on expanded vote counts
The answer to (How to make trigger code execute only for a specific application?) demonstrate some clipping that is occurring when you expand vote counts. The following shows two shots at actual size, ...
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How do I handle multiple correct, yet distinctly different answers?
I recently asked a question [1] that has multiple correct answers, each with their own pros and cons. Nick's answer uses recursive CTE's to provide the solution as efficiently as possible, but ...
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A request for elaboration when migrating SO questions
As is discussed regularly in the heap, there seems to be a steady decline in the overall quality of questions on StackOverflow.
I am nervous that this symptom will bleed into our site, and to prevent ...
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What should our list of off-topic close reasons be?
Close reasons are changing, as well as the sub-reasons for off-topic. We should probably try to avoid falling behind.
This post borrows quite heavily from this post on meta.robotics (which borrowed ...
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Newbie Questions
Over the years (2 years, actually), I have seen many posts where the asker introduces himself/herself as a newbie. Some questions are blantantly easily, others more profound.
In either case, here is ...
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Notifications about new answers or comments doesn't work
Today (one hour ago) I posted a question: History from SQL Agent Jobs (SQL Server 2005)
All notifications about new answer(s)/comments were accessible only when I checked my question on the Database ...
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Badge for elected Moderators
I think an elected Moderator should have a badge for getting elected.
That way past moderators will be esteemed for their contribution.
Come to think of it - if there are badges for ...
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2013 Moderator Election Results
Database Administrators' third moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
He'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank him for ...
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Should there be a tag for classroom help?
I get the feeling that a good number of questions on the site from new or middling users relate to classroom assignments, and never get a good answer, because all the answers deal with real world and ...
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Visited links in our meta are almost invisible
Quick, spot the link in this paragraph:
I understand that meta is supposed to be muted, but I think the brown for visited links is at least a shade too dark. Surely now that I've told you there's a ...
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2013 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Some badge pages truncate users' badges
Certain badge pages only allow a maximum width for a username + badges, and since we have some users who choose to use ridiculously long and impossible to spell usernames, this causes truncation of ...
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did I not provide a possible answer?
While admittedly so basic I nearly didn't post it, isn't this a legitmate answer to the asker's question?
Oracle UPDATE single record with multiple WHERE conditions
Just want to make sure I'm ...
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Moderator Election Page comments overflow on Mobile version
I know that the Moderator Election pages do not have a mobile version by design but when viewing the DBA.SE election page the comments overflow beyond the column for each nominee which does not happen ...
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2013 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic ...
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Active participation during election
So, I've done it; I've nominated myself for dba.SE moderator.
Unfortunately, I am shipping off to Alaska for SQL Cruise starting May 24th, and from what I understand the election runs through May ...
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2013 Community Moderator Election
The 2013 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three ...
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Should I ask here about an academic paper on indexing?
I'm researching bitmap indexes for an MSc assignment.
A good early paper on the topic is "Bit Transposed Files" by Wong et al, published in 1985.
I find the paper's description of Composite Encoding ...
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Are “Help me with this query” questions on topic?
Are "Help me with this query" questions on topic here or are they 'too localized'?
I have a table, with indexes but the explain seems to indicate that the indexes are not used and I'd like some ...
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Network Databases - 2
I fail to see why my previous question was closed. I merely asked whether or not there were any free/open source network (IDMS-type) databases, with the implication that, if there were, an indication ...
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Migrate SO questions here and close as duplicate or close at SO?
How to permanently delete a row in oracle forever
This question prior to being migrated to dba.se already had a comment that it was previously answered on dba.se, with a link. However, the close ...
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Should database theory questions be posted here, in cstheory or in cs?
As per title, it doesn't seem to be clear.
As an aside, maybe for similar situations you should add a feature to allow to add a link to the question on the questions pane of the closely related ...
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Can we change the comment-flag system on The Heap chatroom?
Yesterday (April 1st, April Fools Day notwithstanding) we had some high-ranking members of DBA.SE banned from chat by moderators/10k users from other sites that did not take an appropriate amount of ...
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Is this the place to ask Memcached performance questions?
I'm attempting to diagnose an issue with my Memcached performance, however there is no tag for "memcache"! Is there a better stackexchange than dba.stackexchange.com to ask my memcache questions?
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Please can we have markdown tables on dba.se
Several sites have MathJax enabled, so there is obviously some room for site-specific markdown.
Therefore please can we have markdown tables here on dba.se? There is an open feature-request for this ...
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Should there be a data-modeling tag?
I looked at the tags, and noticed that there is no tag for data modeling.
Before I try to add one, (assuming that I can) I'd like to find out whether the community has already thought about such a ...
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Can We / Should We Strongly Encourage Users to Specify RDBMS on the “Ask” page?
More than most other sites, the majority of our questions require a specific piece of information:
What RDBMS and what version is the asker using?
If it's possible, would it be a benefit to add ...
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Are questions about implementation details of a database on topic?
Specific question on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15468735/overview-of-how-mongodb-uses-its-various-threads
In short, the OP is asking about what MongoDB uses it's threads for ...
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Migration makes tags orphaned references
A question, "How to Model Inheritance of Two Tables MYSQL" was migrated to this forum from Stackoverflow. Unfortunately, my answer to that question contained references to three tags that do not ...
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Adding tag for connection-string
Is there a reason for this tag to be missing?
Am I wrong to assume that connection strings are on-topic here?
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Skip “There are no items for you to review” page
The Review page lists multiple review categories and the number of entries awaiting review. Selecting any category shows all the reviewable entries in the category and then displays a page with the ...
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how can I get an answer to a part of a question?
There is a question, that is solved by the author itself, but there remains a follow-up question, that cannot be asked on its own without reading the whole question.
how can I restart that question?
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Whether we should be CAP COPs
A certain user has suggested a boatload of edits recently. The changes have been either largely or completely revolving around the upper-casing of Transact-SQL keywords. For example, a post that ...
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Chat and the SE toolbar
I quite often spend plenty of time in chat without ever navigating back to DBA.se.
Is there any way of making the Stack Exchange toolbar (as it appears on DBA.se) appear at the top of the chat page ...
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UPSERT synonym for MERGE?
I created a tag upsert (7x) today and wrote a somewhat useful (I hope) tag wiki.
Later I found that there is already a tag merge (15x, no wiki). Would you consider the two synonymous? I can't mark ...
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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?
