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A tag is a keyword or label that categorizes your question with other, similar questions. Using the right tags makes it easier for others to find and answer your question.
PL/pgSQL is the default procedural language for PostgreSQL. Questions about PL/pgSQL should probably be tagged [PostgreSQL] as well.
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A scheduled task managed by the database, for example using SQL Server Agent, Oracle dbms_job, or MySQL Event Scheduler.
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phpMyAdmin is an open source tool written in PHP to handle administration of MySQL over the web. It can perform various tasks such as creating, modifying or deleting databases, tables, fields or rows;…
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Oracle Database 10g (not 10g R2). Please also tag oracle for search purposes.
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Acronym for Common Table Expression. Temporary, reusable subquery that may be recursive.
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Statistics for query optimization are objects that contain statistical information about the distribution of values in one or more columns of a table or indexed view.
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Establishing a connection to a database or database server.
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Best practices are generally and informally recognized as the methods and processes that have been shown over time to be superior to those achieved by other means.
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The conversion of data into a form that cannot be easily understood by unauthorized users.
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for questions specific to data types that contain both date and time parts.
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Windows PowerShell™ is a task-based command-line shell and scripting language designed especially for automation of Windows tasks. Questions using this tag should restrict themselves to interactions d…
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Short for 'eXtensible Markup Language.' A textual markup language for transferring structured data.
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For questions about database mirroring - a technology used to create and maintain an exact copy of a database, synchronously or asynchronously.
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Failover is the concept of moving services from one host or node to another in order to provide high availability in a computing system.
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For questions about the storage space used by databases or database objects.
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Microsoft Azure is a Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service cloud computing platform. Use this tag for database administration questions involving Azure. General server help can be obta…
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Use this for problems that involve returning one or more rows from each group in a data set. Despite the name, this tag is suitable for *minimum-* and *maximum-* per group queries.
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psql is the primary interactive terminal for PostgreSQL. (DO NOT USE THIS TAG for questions targeting PostgreSQL!)
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SQL Server Analysis Services, an OLAP server bundled with SQL Server by Microsoft since version 7.0
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For questions about generating or using language scripts, for example scripting a database object definition.
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Questions related to date or date-related functions, data-types, representations (how dates might be stored and displayed) and operations (such as subtracting dates, adding intervals to dates).
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A collation is a set of rules that determine how data is sorted and compared for comparing characters in a character set.
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A database concept used to represent missing, unknown or inapplicable data.
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The process of identifying the party logging into a system.
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Percona : MySQL open source fork with performance improvements
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For questions about login credentials and accounts used to access a database resource, typically at the server or instance level.
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A function that partitions a result set and computes something within that partition without rolling up the data in that partition.
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Determining what database product best fits the requirements and limitations in a specific situation. This is advice that generally requires much more insight into requirements than can easily be gle…
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TempDB is part of MS SQL Server. It's a system database that functions as a storage area for temporary tables, internal objects and row versions.
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A type of index mostly used in SQL-Server, which aligns the data of a table with the index.
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Transferring log records from a source database system to one or more destination systems.
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