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I'm on the hunt for a tool to expose data from an Sql Server database for templated queries. I've stumbled across the Stack Exchange Data Exporter and I'm wondering if it can satisfy my needs.

If I were to get local installation going, would I be able to point it at my own (i.e. nothing to do with Stack Exchange) data-sets?

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If I were to get local installation going, would I be able to point it at my own (i.e. nothing to do with StackExchange) data-sets?

Yes, though you would have to work at getting those into the tool and working for your data sets.

It really is geared towards Stack Exchange data, so you would need to work on the source code to make that happen - it is open source on GitHub.

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  • Is this practically or theoretically?
    – nicael
    Commented May 13, 2015 at 18:31
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    Theoretically. The codebase is open source on github, so can be forked. github.com/StackExchange/StackExchange.DataExplorer
    – Oded StaffMod
    Commented May 13, 2015 at 18:32
  • You really shouldn't need any changes to just run queries on other types of data, it's just that some functionality won't work/be useful for non-Stack Exchange data.
    – Tim Stone
    Commented May 13, 2015 at 18:56
  • @TimStone - please feel free to edit in any corrections and additional information. Made this CW.
    – Oded StaffMod
    Commented May 13, 2015 at 18:58
  • I like how SE devs reference SO questions in their code github.com/StackExchange/StackExchange.DataExplorer/blob/master/… That's a new kind of dogfooding for ya
    – user1228
    Commented May 13, 2015 at 19:00

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