Forked from query #59734 by sam.saffron. How many questions per month does each tag of your choice get? Now defaults to two tags, but it's easy to add more (up to 10k?). See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1869753/maximum-size-for-a-sql-server-query-in-clause-is-there-a-better-approach
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select *, count(*) from ( select CAST( cast(DATEPART(YYYY, CreationDate) as varchar) + '-' + cast(DATEPART(MM, CreationDate) as varchar) + '-01' as datetime) [Month], t.TagName from Posts p join PostTags pt on pt.PostId = p.Id join Tags t on t.Id = pt.TagId where TagId in ( select top 10 Id from Tags order by Count desc ) ) as X group by TagName, [Month] order by [Month] asc, TagName asc