Instead of using titles like:

How do you fix a collation conflict in a SQL Server query?

which inevitably results in a very large proportion of all questions having titles that begin with the same two words. I think much more succinct titles can be written in this form with no loss of information:

Fixing collation conflict in SQL Server query

I think we need more consensus on the use of gerunds in titles in preference to starting so many of them with “How to/do …” before any proposal to prevent the latter becomes timely. The use of gerunds in titles is discussed at Which of “How to ⟨something⟩”, “How do I do ⟨something⟩” or “Doing ⟨something⟩” is preferred in question titles?.

Instead of using titles like:

How do you fix a collation conflict in a SQL Server query?

which inevitably results in a very large proportion of all questions having titles that begin with the same two words. I think much more succinct titles can be written in this form with no loss of information:

Fixing collation conflict in SQL Server query

I think we need more consensus on the use of gerunds in titles in preference to starting so many of them with “How to/do …” before any proposal to prevent the latter with or without a question mark becomes timely. The use of gerunds in titles is discussed at Which of “How to ⟨something⟩”, “How do I do ⟨something⟩” or “Doing ⟨something⟩” is preferred in question titles?.

Instead of using titles like:

How do you fix a collation conflict in a SQL Server query?

which inevitably results in a very large proportion of all questions having titles that begin with the same two words. I think much more succinct titles can be written in this form with no loss of information:

Fixing collation conflict in SQL Server query

Instead of using titles like:

How do you fix a collation conflict in a SQL Server query?

which inevitably results in a very large proportion of all questions having titles that begin with the same two words. I think much more succinct titles can be written in this form with no loss of information:

Fixing collation conflict in SQL Server query

I think we need more consensus on the use of gerunds in titles in preference to starting so many of them with “How to/do …” before any proposal to prevent the latter becomes timely. The use of gerunds in titles is discussed at Which of “How to ⟨something⟩”, “How do I do ⟨something⟩” or “Doing ⟨something⟩” is preferred in question titles?.