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How to make this query better (e.g. avoid repeating subquery in a query)?

Stack Exchange provides access to query their MS SQL databases. They have a table Posts where each post is either a question or an answer (see the schema on right ...
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Get average post score of TOP 10 tags on StackOverflow using Stack Exchange Data Explorer

I want to use the Stack exchange data explorer in order to display some basic information about the top tags. The query should print the number of questions and answers, the average number of answers ...
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Zombie killers ranking

Code Review has a Zombie Problem and, in comparison to The Walking Dead TV Show, our survival doesn't depend on killing them all day every day. As a potential solution, I though it would be ...
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Find how much reputation a user had on a given date

I saw this question on MSE and went ahead and wrote a solution to it: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/313561/determining-users-reputation-as-of-particular-date This calculates the ...
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The seasoned Zombie sniper: a query to find unanswered questions with specific tags

The query (on SEDE) This query builds upon the previous and includes the suggestions by rofl as well as the now mentioned activity index. ...
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The sniper: a Zombie searcher for specific tags

Sometimes, it's not enough to know what the easy prey is. You also need to know whether you will be able to hunt it down. What good is an almost turned haskell zombie if you cannot read the functional ...
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A wounded Zombie finder, or: how to find the almost dead undead?

The Zombies are on their way to eat our statistics. Fortunately, we have a way to get rid of them: our votes. However, we need to find them first. The /unanswered section is too large and contains ...
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Who are these lurkers?

Last night in The 2nd Monitor there was a discussion about postless users - I wanted to see how many there are, whether they're one-timers that showed up once, registered and never came back, and ...
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Load and parse Stack Exchange data dump XML into DB table

I have put together a stored procedure to load and parse the Stack Exchange Data Dump into a relational database (akin to Stack Exchange Data Explorer). Each site has 8 XML files like these: The ...
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Retrieve high views per day questions with few answers

I've been messing around with the SE Data Explorer and I've come up with a query that basically returns information about questions that have a high number of views per day, that have few or no ...
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Top Python badged users from NYC

I forked this StackExchange Data Explorer (SEDE) query from another one, and made it a bit more complex. I'm looking for feedback on my style, as well as answers to other questions (see below). ...
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Cross-posts from Stack Overflow to CR

What this code does it explained in detail in the top portion of the query. I have left out part of the list of language tags as I felt it was just noise. You can see the full collection here. You ...
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Searching for bad Minecraft questions on Gaming.SE

To preface this post a little bit, I'll explain a little bit of the "backstory" here. The Stack Exchange site, Gaming.SE, also known as Arqade, often has a large influx of bad questions about the ...
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Tag wikis under a certain length

I wrote a SEDE query to list all tag wikis with a body or an excerpt under a given number of characters. I've used this to find empty wikis or wikis with very little information. The tags can be ...
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Searching posts/comments by keywords

I've put together another simple query that allows you to search post/comments with specific keywords. At the moment, only post bodies are checked. ...
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