I had perceived an uptick in new reviewers around here, and I wanted to see if the data backed that observation up. It's been a while since I've written any SQL, so this was a nice little exercise in using the Stack Exchange Data Explorer. The query finds the first question and first answer from every user, and then groups those first posts by week. It turns out that I was right, but the growth of first questions is outpacing the growth of first answers. The query feels repetitive and I'm not a huge fan of the `Full Outer Join`. Is there a better way to write this? WITH FirstAnswers AS ( SELECT Users.Id UserId ,dateadd(week, datediff(week, 0, Convert(Date,Min(Posts.CreationDate))), 0) WeekOf FROM Posts INNER JOIN Users ON Posts.OwnerUserId = Users.Id WHERE PostTypeId = 2 --answer AND Posts.CreationDate > '2011-Jan-01' --There was very little activity prior to this date. Including it skews the graph. GROUP BY Users.Id ), FirstQuestions AS ( SELECT Users.Id UserId ,dateadd(week, datediff(week, 0, Convert(Date,Min(Posts.CreationDate))), 0) WeekOf FROM Posts INNER JOIN Users ON Posts.OwnerUserId = Users.Id WHERE PostTypeId = 1 --question AND Posts.CreationDate > '2011-Jan-01' --There was very little activity prior to this date. Including it skews the graph. GROUP BY Users.Id ) SELECT ISNULL(a.WeekOf,b.WeekOf) As WeekOf , a.AnswerCount, b.QuestionCount FROM ( SELECT WeekOf, Count(UserId) AnswerCount FROM FirstAnswers GROUP BY WeekOf ) a FULL OUTER JOIN ( SELECT WeekOf, Count(UserId) QuestionCount FROM FirstQuestions GROUP BY WeekOf )b ON a.WeekOf = b.WeekOf ORDER BY WeekOf [![First Qs & As Graph][1]][1] [query]:http://data.stackexchange.com/codereview/query/339526/first-questions-and-answers#graph [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/RpLHL.png