Hmmmm. I dont know if this will be of any use. but what i feel is the structure be divided into two parts. a) Version b) Section.

A combo drop down for Version containing various versions

6.0

6.5

7

2000

2005

2008

with a default value of 2005 as major questions would be from this version at this time. Also, a striking header asking user to select proper version.

Second part contains section as mentioned in the editorial.

Administration

General

Backup and Recovery (backup, restore, detach, attach)

Security and auditing (logins, users, roles, schemas)

High Availability (Mirroring, Clustering, Log Shipping)

Performance and Tuning

Replication

Development

T-SQL - Any questions on the T-SQL language or code issues

.NET programming - With regards to querying SQL Servrs

SQL CLR - Assemblies

Miscellaneous

Anything not about SQL!

Humor

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This will keep the page simple so users can scan through available sections quickly and post their queries in the most appropriate section.

This may ask for some major changes in that page and relevent backend but will make it simpler to use..... good for future... The column Forums in the detailed forum section could contain details like..

(2000) Replication, (2008) Backup and Recovery, (7.0) General etc....

Also, I've not taken into consideration another important aspect... ... that is various editions... like standard, enterprise.... I've seen users mentioning the editions if they're using lower editions.... syntaxes are almost same... only there is quantity of features that is different in various editions...