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Increase max SEDE query running time

I see an increasing amount of: Line 0: Execution Timeout Expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding. errors (screenshot) on SEDE due to ...
Franck Dernoncourt's user avatar
17 votes
1 answer
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Can we exchange one index for another one?

In the Stack Exchange Data Explorer only the most logical/beneficial yet minimal set of indexes is created for the tables found in the schema. One of those indexes is on the Users table: CREATE ...
rene's user avatar
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25 votes
2 answers
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Create a view that provides a list of databases

In an answer to Strange new database 'Data.StackExchangePOC' is messing up cross-site SEDE queries our DBA extraordinair Aaron Bertrand suggested to have a feature request for a view to list ...
rene's user avatar
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The SE Data Explorer captcha is unnecessarily annoying

Whenever I try to run a query with the Data Explorer, my process is: Type the parameters for the query. Click "Run query". Click the "I'm not a robot" checkbox that suddenly ...
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Periodically publish a data dump of all IDs in the image ID space (and make it available in SEDE)

I see that Imgur has an API to query for image IDs in its ID space, but api.stack.imgur.com is not an API endpoint (and SE is moving off Imgur anyway). Say I want to get all the IDs of images in Stack ...
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Add option to download a message in SEDE

In SEDE, one can download the results as a CSV file, but there are no options to download a message. Feature request: Add an option to download a message in SEDE. That'd be useful for queries ...
Franck Dernoncourt's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
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What am I supposed to do when I get what is probably the "requires external JavaScript" error for the chat domains and SEDE?

I'm suddenly getting this error in my main sites (like SO and MSE) Meta Stack Exchange requires external JavaScript from another domain, which is blocked or failed to load. Retry using another source....
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2 votes
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Does Stack Exchange offer any incentives related to use of their data explorer in research?

I'm interested in whether or not there have historically been this sort of partnership with research in the academic space or if it is planned for the future. This could be something like a grant, ...
William Ledbetter's user avatar
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Add a bit column for whether a badge is retired in SEDE or a RetiredDate column

It would be nice (for example) to be able to easily filter out badges that are retired when querying SEDE for analysis purposes. A bit for it would work, or alternatively, a nullable RetiredDate. Or ...
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Why have you hidden the "Data Explorer" tool?

Why is Data Explorer tool accessed only by clicking the word "Data" at the bottom of the page? Correct it. Change the word "Data" to "Data Explorer". Bring the word &...
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Add tooltip with exact timestamp to 'Data updated ... ago' label on SEDE homepage

Can we add a tooltip with the exact UTC timestamp to the 'Data updated ... ago' label on the SEDE homepage? It would help indicating whether the refresh was slow (as it was today) or even incomplete. ...
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8 votes
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Drop Posts.FavoriteCount from SEDE

Related: What happened to FavoriteCount? - my educated guess is that a NULL value indicates a question has never been favorited or bookmarked, and 0 that it was. Since the values are so different from ...
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5 votes
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In the SEDE sidebar, give the "i" icon (show table contents) a larger hitbox

Proposal: Give the i icon in the SEDE sidebar some horizontal padding for larger hitbox. Currently, the i icon which shows the table contents for small enum-like tables has a small hitbox (...
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7 votes
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"Verification expired" when anonymously running an SEDE query

I ran a long SEDE query without logging in. Did the captcha, but after ~30 or ~60 sec got "Verification expired". Unsure if bug or feature request. Saw it quite often over the past few ...
Franck Dernoncourt's user avatar
2 votes
1 answer
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Search a SO post that I closed with a certain keyword

Is there a way to search for a Stack Overflow post that I closed and that has a certain keyword say "this" or certain code say this in it? I mean, I want to search by typing in the search ...
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