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A Stack Overflow or Database Administrators minimum reproducible example should have code that readers can cut and paste and run, including initial values for tables or similar data structures formatted in a tabular way for readability.

Unfortunately these new markdown tables are going to make it harder to get MREs because initial values will be given in a format that we can't cut and paste and run. In particular, for SQL, and, ironically, at Database Administrators.

At the very least please update the documentation for tables and for code post composition and editing to emphasize that use of markdown tables should not interfere with giving code that is both readable and able to be cut and pasted and run, in the post and not just at a link.

Functionality to generate code from text tables found at language sandbox sites like sqlfiddle.com is helpful for writers. But readers should not be expected to all reproduce that effort.

Here we go.

Joining two tables to display data relative to each other

A Stack Overflow or Database Administrators minimum reproducible example should have code that readers can cut and paste and run, including initial values for tables or similar data structures formatted in a tabular way for readability.

Unfortunately these new markdown tables are going to make it harder to get MREs because initial values will be given in a format that we can't cut and paste and run. In particular, for SQL, and, ironically, at Database Administrators.

At the very least please update the documentation for tables and for code post composition and editing to emphasize that use of markdown tables should not interfere with giving code that is both readable and able to be cut and pasted and run, in the post and not just at a link.

Functionality to generate code from text tables found at language sandbox sites like sqlfiddle.com is helpful for writers. But readers should not be expected to all reproduce that effort. And it doesn't necessarily reconstruct the actual table definition & contents used.

... and here we go:
https://stackoverflow.com/revisions/65207252/1

A Stack Overflow or Database Administrators minimum reproducible example should have code that readers can cut and paste and run, including initial values for tables or similar data structures formatted in a tabular way for readability.

Unfortunately these new markdown tables are going to make it harder to get MREs because initial values will be given in a format that we can't cut and paste and run. In particular, for SQL, and, ironically, at Database Administrators.

At the very least please update the documentation for tables and for code post composition and editing to emphasize that use of markdown tables should not interfere with giving code that is both readable and able to be cut and pasted and run, in the post and not just at a link.

Functionality to generate code from text tables found at language sandbox sites like sqlfiddle.com is helpful for writers. But readers should not be expected to all reproduce that effort.

A Stack Overflow or Database Administrators minimum reproducible example should have code that readers can cut and paste and run, including initial values for tables or similar data structures formatted in a tabular way for readability.

Unfortunately these new markdown tables are going to make it harder to get MREs because initial values will be given in a format that we can't cut and paste and run. In particular, for SQL, and, ironically, at Database Administrators.

At the very least please update the documentation for tables and for code post composition and editing to emphasize that use of markdown tables should not interfere with giving code that is both readable and able to be cut and pasted and run, in the post and not just at a link.

Functionality to generate code from text tables found at language sandbox sites like sqlfiddle.com is helpful for writers. But readers should not be expected to all reproduce that effort.

Here we go.

Joining two tables to display data relative to each other

A Stack Overflow or Database Administrators minimum reproducible example should have code that readers can cut & paste and run, including initial values for tables or similar data structures formatted in a tabular way for readability.

Unfortunately these new markdown tables are going to make it harder to get MREs because initial values will be given in a format that we can't cut & paste & run. In particular, for SQL, and, ironically, at Database Administrators.

At the very least please update the documentation for tables & for code post composition & editing to emphasize that use of markdown tables should not interfere with giving code that is both readable & able to be cut & pasted & run, in the post & not just at a link.

Functionality to generate code from text tables found at language sandbox sites like sqlfiddle.com is helpful for writers. But readers should not be expected to all reproduce that effort.

A Stack Overflow or Database Administrators minimum reproducible example should have code that readers can cut and paste and run, including initial values for tables or similar data structures formatted in a tabular way for readability.

Unfortunately these new markdown tables are going to make it harder to get MREs because initial values will be given in a format that we can't cut and paste and run. In particular, for SQL, and, ironically, at Database Administrators.

At the very least please update the documentation for tables and for code post composition and editing to emphasize that use of markdown tables should not interfere with giving code that is both readable and able to be cut and pasted and run, in the post and not just at a link.

Functionality to generate code from text tables found at language sandbox sites like sqlfiddle.com is helpful for writers. But readers should not be expected to all reproduce that effort.