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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...
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#1: Initial revision
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Lundin
·
2020-10-20T09:36:48Z (over 3 years ago)
> **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 and questions regarding the use of specific DBMS (MySQL, Oracle etc): > **On-topic** > > - 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.