This is way cool, and has been there for a long time, and I completely missed it until recently (:
On the Stack Exchange Data Explorer, you can write your own queries for any of the StackExchange sites as they share a common database infrastructure.
The queries can even contain an execution plan, and given the large number of questions (the total of Questions (table Posts) is total over 10 million now: select count(*) as QuestionCount from Posts as Questions
).
There are many examples, for instance this one by sam.saffron and TLama that lists posts outside the Delphi area: Read the rest of this entry »