I need to use the Stack Overflow data for some data mining experiments and I have to find out which posts have been deleted.
I have been using the data explorer and trying to see if I could retrieve deleted posts (questions and answers inclusive); however when I try to retrieve posts which have been deleted (i.e posthistorytypeid of 12); I get postids that still point to valid answers on the Stack Overflow page.
For example, the post with the id 508626 has a delete in its history; however it's still showing on this page: How can I include value of sharepoint's version column in a word document?
This is my query:
select postid
from posthistory PP
group by PP.postid
having not exists
(select * from posthistory where posthistorytypeid = 13 and postid=PP.postid)
and exists (select * from posthistory where posthistorytypeid = 12 and postid=PP.postid)