Stack Overflow Database

How to Find Cool Questions and Answers on DBA.StackExchange.com

Last Updated March 4, 2020

DBA.StackExchange.com is a Stack Overflow site that’s specifically targeted at database administrators. There tend to be some pretty interesting questions in there – not just for SQL Server, but all kinds of databases – but at the same time, there’s also a lot of noise. To help find fun questions, I use The Power of…

A Gentle Introduction To the Stack Overflow Schema

Last Updated June 4, 2018

Erik Darling

Stack Overflow Database, Stack Overflow Public Data Dump

Stack: Dumped Wanna learn the schema of the free Stack Overflow public database? If you want the Full Nelson, it’s all documented here. That’s a great resource if you’re looking to learn more, but generally when you’re looking at a data dump and building up demo queries, you wanna get an idea of where the…

Updated (and Smaller!) Stack Overflow Demo Databases

Last Updated January 20, 2018

Brent Ozar

Stack Overflow Database, Stack Overflow Public Data Dump

The place that saves your job The nice folks over at StackOverflow.com (shout out, @onlybluefeet) updated their public data dump last month. This time around, I’m giving you two options: Full size circa 2017/12: 19GB torrent (magnet.) Expands to a ~137GB SQL Server 2008 database. Because it’s so large, we distribute it with BitTorrent – if you’re…

Updated Stack Overflow Database Dump Importer v1.4

Last Updated November 17, 2017

Brent Ozar

Stack Overflow Database

The nice folks at Stack Overflow publish their entire data set (data included) in XML format. It’s tons of fun for demos, but you need a way to get it into a relational database. The Stack Overflow Data Dump Importer (SODDI) makes this point-and-click easy. Just download the latest release, install it, download the XML exports, and…

Stack Overflow Database

How to Find Cool Questions and Answers on DBA.StackExchange.com

A Gentle Introduction To the Stack Overflow Schema

Updated (and Smaller!) Stack Overflow Demo Databases

Updated Stack Overflow Database Dump Importer v1.4

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