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How can I search for tags with that include a specified string in their Usage Guidance?

I would like to search for all tags (on Stack Overflow) that include some specific string in the Usage Guidance portion of their Tag Wiki. How can I do that? Specifically I would like to search for ...
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How can I run SEDE queries on my computer? [duplicate]

Some SEDE queries time out on SEDE. How can I run SEDE queries on my computer?
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How should I go about retrieving the date of when a question became/was no longer hot with SEDE?

I am currently making a SEDE query to determine which questions from a specific user have made it onto the Hot Network Questions list and when. While I can get the specific questions, I am unable to ...
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Data explorer query takes a lot of time and needs to be optimized

This is a Stack Exchange Data Explorer query which gets the top users on specific skill scores (example: JavaScript) based on a specific country (example: Egypt), and it took a lot of time until it ...
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Data Explorer Query crashes with collation conflict error

I have a website built off my Q & A posted in Stack Exchange sites such as; Ask Ubuntu, Stack Overflow, SE Security, etc. Data Explorer is used to scrape ALL Stack Exchange Q & A I've posted ...
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Are SEDE results ever cached on client side, or solely on server side?

I know that SEDE query results are cached on the server side. I wonder if in some cases they are also cached on the client side.
Franck Dernoncourt's user avatar
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How can one see when a query was cached in SEDE?

Query results in SEDE are cached: How can one see when a query result was last cached in SEDE?
Franck Dernoncourt's user avatar
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How can I write and run a SEDE query without the query itself being visible to other regular SEDE users?

How can I write and run a query in SEDE without the query itself being visible to other regular SEDE users, such as in the "everything" tab of the "queries" page?
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What exactly is the "sql" parameter in SEDE and what purpose does it serve?

SEDE supports query parameters. I found that if I try to define a query parameter of string type named "sql", whatever I pass as the argument for that parameter will be prepended by a string ...
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How can I see the number of questions that a given user voted to close but got later reopened by someone else?

I wonder the following: for a given user, how can I see the number of questions that they voted to close, but the question was later reopened by someone else (possibly a group of users)?
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What's going on with SEDE right now? It's being fickle

When I open a new tab, I get "we are currently offline", and then I refresh a couple of times and it's fine. Then when I try to run a query, it will give unknown job being polled! or ...
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Get statistics about self-deleted accounts

It's interesting to know is there a possibility to get the number of deleted users on site per specified period? Additional information like reputation, number of posts etc on the moment of deletion ...
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How can one see how many regular users cast at least one reopen vote during the current year?

I am looking at some question reopening statistics. How can one see how many regular users cast at least one reopen vote during the current year? Preferably with the count of how many reopen votes ...
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SEDE query to pull votes on a post within 90 days of its creation date

I am trying to query SEDE so I can count the upvotes (and I would also like to count the downvotes in its own column) that happen within 90 days after the question or answer was created. I have tried ...
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Some Users have an AccountId being Zero

We know account creation is finicky from answers to questions like Why is my profile messed up on a single site and how can I revert it? among others. In some of these cases you end-up with a user-...
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How to query SEDE for user sign-up dates for a specific community

We are looking to query a list of users to receive the sign-up dates to the Stack Overflow sub-community. Does anyone have a suggestion how to do this via SEDE?
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How can we check how often questions sent to the close queue age out?

My site is dealing with a rather long close vote review queue and we believe reviews are regularly ageing out. We want to address the problem in Meta and motivate it with stats over time about how ...
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Should Windows Phone site be removed from SEDE?

I have noticed that it is possible to see Windows Phone as one of the sites where one can run SEDE queries. As an example, here is a query listing the recent posts. This query shows the date as the ...
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How can I view unread messages?

At one point I had up to a hundred of unread messages. I read many of them, but the notification icon says there are four I have not. Because of the sheer number of the messages, I am having ...
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Can you save an edit to a SEDE query's title or description without editing the query?

I don't create queries in SEDE much but when I do, I forget to give them a useful title and description until after I'm finished creating them and click the permalink button. In an effort to avoid ...
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Search for comments on posts with a certain tag based on a keyword

I am trying to get the comments on posts with a specific tag which include a phrase or a keyword of interest using SEDE. Here's my first attempt: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/...
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Finding my upvotes on Data Explorer

This T-SQL finds all the questions I have answered on SO. https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1779459/questions-i-have-answered I want to determine if I upvoted the question or not (as ...
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Can I see other user's badge progress and/or tag progress short of doing SEDE query?

I can see my own badge/tag progress in the "Select your next badge" dialog box from the User Activity screen. For example, I can see that I'm 455/500 for a gold Copy Editor badge in ...
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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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The company's commitment to the data dumps, the API, and SEDE

Many words have been written around the company's commitment to the ongoing existence of the data dumps, the API, and the Stack Exchange Data Explorer (SEDE). Much of that text can be confusing or ...
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What exactly do VoteTypeId=4 (offensive) and VoteTypeId=12 (spam) mean?

According to the Database schema documentation for SEDE, the table Votes contains as VoteTypeId 4 = Offensive and 12 = Spam. The latter was mentioned, for example, here: How to find posts closed as ...
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How can I download a small data set (1 year 2023-2022) from Stack Exchange?

I want to download a small dataset for one year. I didn't find a link that allows me to download 1 year of data or the last five years' data. I tried "https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/...
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Ranking users with most edits and close votes on a specific tag

A while back I asked this question about writing a query which would rank users based on their number of close votes on posts related to a specific tag: Table of users ranked based on their number of ...
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Table of users ranked based on their number of close votes in a specific tag

I am trying to get the list of users that have the most number of close votes (tallying each type of close votes; i.e. Duplicates, Too Broad, Need MRE, Not About Programming, etc.) in a specific tag. ...
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When were comments first available on Stack Exchange?

I am curious about when comments first became available on Stack Exchange (or whatever the site was when the development occurred). I ask this because, in the Database schema documentation for the ...
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Can GPT-4 be used to do SEDE queries?

I don't know how to do SEDE queries, but I would like to explore some of the Earth Science Stack Exchange data. Once I needed a query it was done by user rene, but I have many queries to do on Earth ...
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How can I find users with a specific number of earned/offered bounties?

How can I find users with a specific number of earned or/and offered bounties?
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How can you view the most upvoted comments on your posts (answers and questions)?

Is there a way to view the most upvoted comments from any of my answers or questions on Stack Overflow? There are two similar questions/answers: Search for my most upvoted comments and Can I view a ...
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Find posts deleted by authors, that deleted their own account later

How can we find posts deleted by their author that deleted their own account later?
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How can I find my OpenID identifier for logging in to SEDE?

In my previous post, all the login options at SEDE seem to be linked to the same URL which doesn't work. The last one I haven't tried is OpenID. But how can I find it?
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Why isn't there any captcha asked when running a new query in SEDE?

When I tried to create a new query on https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/new, I didn't see any hint for me to work on CAPTCHA, so I just clicked Run Query, and the next page was https:/...
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Login options in SEDE do not work

Clicking the login options such as Yahoo in https://data.stackexchange.com/account/login?returnurl=/account/login?returnurl=/account/login?returnurl=/stackoverflow/queries doesn't work. Hovering ...
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What is the difference between DisplayName and Id on the Stack Exchange Data Explorer Users table?

I am trying to pull a list of all users who have commented on an answer and tie it back to their User profile, if one exists. However, not all Comments table records have a UserId associated with them ...
William Ledbetter's user avatar
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SEDE does something weird with URL parameters

Can somebody explain what happens in this SEDE query? It's a very simple one, apart from the use of a parameter: PRINT ('%href="##url##"%') but somehow SEDE decides to append part of its ...
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What's the Data Explorer query to get the latest data that Stack Overflow Trends shows?

Stack Overflow Trends shows the percentage of questions with a certain tag. Here's an example for Java IDEs. On Jan 7, 2023, this link produces this graph: So VS Code is at 0.8%, and IntelliJ is ...
Karsten Silz's user avatar
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How can I find unaccepted answers using the SEDE?

While researching my question, "Are there any questions for which multiple answers have received enlightened badges?", I've created a query that searches for questions with multiple accepted ...
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SEDE query to find progress on Four Ayes hat?

I've been working on a query to count the number of days a user's posts have had votes up, with no votes down on any day. But it seems like it's missing some posts. Users that have Four Ayes, do not ...
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Finding closed questions from new contributors that others believe may be now reopenable

This query is fast, showing about 150 results right now: WITH Closed_New_Contributors (PID, UID, Created) AS ( SELECT p.id AS PID, u.id AS UID, u.CreationDate as Created FROM Posts p INNER ...
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Is there a way (e.g. with SEDE) to find questions with an existing tag that's been synonymized (but not merged) into another tag?

Say Tag 1 has been added as a synonym of Tag 2, so that new questions attempting to use Tag 1 will be automatically pointed to Tag 2. However, the two tags haven't been merged (yet). Then, if you ...
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Can someone make a query of number of questions, answers and average upvotes on answers on Earth Science Stack Exchange since its beginning?

Earth Science Stack Exchange is no longer a beta site, but this stats show it is not a healthy site. My perception is there are a lot of inactive users that started to publish content in the ...
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What does the error message "unknown job being polled!" mean on SEDE?

Error message seen on the first attempt to run this query anonymously: unknown job being polled! Screenshot: The second attempt to run the query was successful.
Franck Dernoncourt's user avatar
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What basic logic decides what does or doesn't get included in SEDE?

What basic logic decides what information does or doesn't get included in SEDE? And what are the nuances for when certain things might not follow that basic logic? I'm looking to get a kind of ...
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Is it possible to use cached results of an already-run query in another query?

The results of queries are cached until the next refresh: 1, 2. Is it possible to refer to those cached results in other queries? I imagine if there is, it might look something like this: SELECT * ...
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Searching my own unanswered questions over all Stack Exchange sites

I wish to get a list of my own unanswered questions over all Stack Exchange sites. It seems you can run SQL queries with data.stackexchange.com, something I learned only today. Is there a way I can ...
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What happened to FavoriteCount?

On 10/22 I ran a query on the Data Science SEDE. In the Posts table I selected some columns, FavoriteCounts included. Looking at the results from the .csv I see a lot of different unique values for ...
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