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23 questions linked to/from Create a view that provides a list of databases
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Allow cross-site queries in data explorer [duplicate]
I think it would be useful if we could join across databases in the data-explorer.
For example, I'd like to query up a list of questions that I had a hand in migrating away from SO, and see what ...
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How can I write a cross-site Data Explorer query that joins databases on linked accounts? [duplicate]
The answer to this question implies that you can write cross-site Data Explorer queries, but the sample query doesn't appear to do what I think it should.
SELECT TOP 1 *
FROM [StackOverflow....
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Directly support cross-site queries in the Data Explorer [duplicate]
Often you want to query some statistic for a user across all sites. For example, you might write a query to find your rejected suggested edits across all Stack Exchange sites.
To implement this, you ...
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Database schema documentation for the public data dump and SEDE
Stack Exchange releases "data dumps" of all its publicly available content roughly every three months via archive.org, and also makes that information queryable over the Internet at the ...
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The reCAPTCHA has become too difficult for humans to solve [closed]
The reCAPTCHAs have suddenly become almost illegible. I regularly have to change it four or five times before I find one I can read. I am tempted to just enter the known word (an easy guess), and ...
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What is the origin of "6 to 8 weeks" and is it really the Crazy Frog?
Last week I was watching a TV show. During a dialog, one character asked the other something like "So how long will it take you to do it" and the answer was simply "6 to 8 weeks".
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Please provide a Moderators table in the Data Explorer
Moderators are special, privileged users who should serve as an example to the rest of us. Therefore, it is natural to want to query behaviors and statistics about these model users, Like I did, for ...
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What is the story of Jeff Atwood and the pluralization 'Bug'? [closed]
No, this is not a question reporting pluralization bugs, I don't really care about them and I don't think they're real bugs...
But, I'm very curious to know why is the Stack Exchange team ignoring ...
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Strange new database 'Data.StackExchangePOC' is messing up cross-site SEDE queries
I just read a comment by user @questionto42 that one of my cross-site queries isn't working. My educated guess is this is because a special database Data.StackExchangePOC was created two days ago:
(...
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How can I get URLs and site names for a cross-site SEDE query?
When doing cross-site queries on the Stack Exchange Data Explorer, two of the main problems are 1) getting the URLs right and 2) getting the site names right. For URLs, we have constructions like the ...
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What's the Codegolf_Temp database (and why does it mess up my query)?
Today, I was running some queries on SEDE and found out that this one fails to run because of the following error:
Invalid object name 'StackExchange.Codegolf_Temp.dbo.badges'.
Apparently, there's a ...
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Can you please close the "Stackexchange.Arduino" database? It has been open long enough for now
I was running a query this morning similar to:
create table #validaccounts(accountid int primary key)
declare @sql nvarchar(max)
select @sql = concat(N'insert into #validaccounts
select distinct ...
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Data Explorer Query crashes with collation conflict error
I have a website built off my Q & A posted in Stack Exchange sites such as; Ask Ubuntu, Stack Overflow, SE Security, etc.
Data Explorer is used to scrape ALL Stack Exchange Q & A I've posted ...
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Out-of-resources when trying to run a popular DataExplorer query
So, I tried to run this query
Users with highest Socratic progress (socratic hopefuls)
which has many views (so I assume it's popular), but I get a message saying:
The query processor ran out of ...
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How long does the Data Explorer Refresh take for each database?
Each Sunday at 03:00 UTC the Stack Exchange Data Explorer gets refreshed. It takes 6 to 8 hours to refresh all 350+ databases that hold the Posts, Votes, History etc for the Main and Meta sites.
I was ...