The Stack Exchange Data Explorer is a tool used to look at the data from Stack Exchange websites using SQL queries.
Questions tagged [data.stackexchange.com]
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How can I make my SQL query for StackExchange shorter?
I was trying to track my performance here in SO using StackExchange - Query Stack Overflow and came up with this query:
At first I have this one to get the list of my answered questions:
Select Distinct a.Id, a.CreationDate, u.DisplayName, p.Title,…

tomjosef
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Most efficient way to query stack overflow database for a question and its answers
So I'm trying to query the stack overflow database for a question and its answers. So far I have come across two ways to do this:
SELECT questions.Id as [Post Link], questions.title, answers.body, questions.viewcount
FROM Posts answers
INNER JOIN…

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CLI to StackExchange Data Explorer
I'm starting to use the StackExchange Data Explorer, which is a cool tool.
Apart from the web interface, is there a CLI way to connect to the StackExchange SQL engine without downloading the whole data dump to a local SQL database.
What I want to do…

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How to assign event counts to relative date values in SQL?
I want to line up multiple series so that all milestone dates are set to month zero, allowing me to measure the before-and-after effect of the milestone. I'm hoping to be able to do this using SQL server.
You can see an approximation of what I'm…

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Use SQL count(*) with an alias column
Hi I'm trying to use https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/new to get the stack overflow gold medalists from my country. Here is my query,
SELECT TOP 1000
ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY Gold badges DESC) AS [#],
UserId AS [User Link],…

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Assign default value 6 months in the past to datetime variable on data.stackexchange.com
I found a query on data.stackexchange.com (Interesting unanswered questions) and wanted to make a variation with an optional datetime variable to avoid getting questions that are very old in the results.
I hard coded a date six months in the past…

JoSSte
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Generalize SQL query to include data for all Users
This popular data.stackexchange.com query allows me to query all tags of a user combined with their upvotes.
E.g. for user 22656 the follwing is outputed:
TagName, Upvotes
c#, 147346
java, 84373
.net, 49952
I would like to extract this information…

styts
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Why does this search for [help/dont-ask] return irrelevant results in DSE?
Why does this ridiculously simple query on data.stackexchange.com return results that don't have [help/dont-ask] in the comment text? I feel like I'm missing something mind-numbingly obvious here.
select top 10 Id, PostId, Text
from comments
where…

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Are there 1:M Recursive relationships in the StackExchange Database?
I'm looking for a 1 to many recursive relationship in the Stack Exchange Database. I'm querying it here https://data.stackexchange.com/math/queries. I don't see any 1 to many recursive relationships. The closest I've found is the relationship…

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Do we know which columns in StackExchange tables are indexed?
Is there a way to tell which columns are indexes (other than the primary keys) in the Stack Exchange database? I can look at the link below, but that doesn't explicitly answer the question, as far as I can tell.
https://sedeschema.github.io/

Eric Tim
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Why does Location=emptystring occupy two rows on "GROUP BY Location" on a data.stackexchange query?
Why does Location=emptystring occupy two rows on this data.stackexchange query? https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1627756/test
SELECT
SUM(Reputation) AS rep,
Location
FROM Users
GROUP BY Location
ORDER BY rep DESC

hanshenrik
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Cypress does not open "https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com" . Why it happens?
I tried to click on that link in stackexchange.com at first and received "Whoops, there is no test to run." info.
Then tried to directly open the link, it behaves same.
I used invoke('attr', 'target', '_self') and "experimentalSourceRewriting": true…

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query stackoverflow questions by language and date?
I see that we have a tool called "stack exchange data query" but I don't see there examples of using the tool and I don't see in the fields "programming language" or something similar?

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Get number of posts per month in data.stackexchange
I'm trying to get the total monthly number of posts per month
WITH QuestStatsByMonth AS (
SELECT DATEADD (month, DATEDIFF (month, 0, q.CreationDate), 0) AS [Month],
t.TagName,
SUM (q.Score) AS TotalScore,
q.Id …

jjmerelo
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SQL - Optimize the execution time
I am trying to fetch data from stackexchange database. My query is:
select distinct top 50 U.Id, U.DisplayName, U.Reputation,
Tags = stuff( (SELECT ','+p2.Tags
FROM posts p2 join votes V on p2.id = V.PostId
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