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Meta Community feedback: What type of questions can I ask here?

On-topic questions about SQL programming ... Off-topic questions about database administration I propose that these two are changed to clarify that we allow questions about database design an...

posted 4y ago by Lundin‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Lundin‭ · 2020-10-20T09:36:48Z (about 4 years ago)
> **On-topic**
>
> - questions about SQL programming  
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> ...  
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> **Off-topic**
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> - questions about database administration

I propose that these two are changed to clarify that we allow questions about database design and questions regarding the use of specific DBMS (MySQL, Oracle etc):

> **On-topic**
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> - questions about database design or how to interact with a specific DBMS, for the purpose of database design, programming or access through SQL. 

Database administration is a bit of a fuzzy term so I propose that it gets removed completely. Maintaining a database server is obviously off-topic and covered by server administration being off-topic. But maintaining the data/tables themselves could be either on- or off-topic, from case to case.