Ok, so lets do a little math here. In SharePoint 2007, you can define only 1 Records Center at a time for official files. A single site collection (including a Records Center) in its own content database might contain somewhere around 1 million documents at a meager average of 55KB per document. That keeps us under the …
Monthly Archive: October 2009
Oct
24
SP2010 Scalability (3 of 4): Remote BLOB Storage
Binary Large Objects, or BLOBs as the SQL types like to call them, are the byte arrays that represent documents and other files in SharePoint. Typically, they are stored in the SharePoint content database. The reality is, the ECM industry has known for decades that RDBMS is not the best place to store BLOBs. SQL database …
Oct
24
SP2010 Scalability (2 of 4): SharePoint Search
For the last several years, I’ve worked on several projects that stretch the recommended limits regarding the amount of content that SharePoint can handle. Back in December of 2007 I started on an interesting scalability journey with a couple of awesome guys at Microsoft. The first, Paul Learning, is a quality MCS SharePoint guy out of …
Oct
24
SP2010 Scalability (1 of 4): Introduction
I have been very fortunate over the last several years in that I’ve had many opprtunities to architect many extremely high scale SharePoint systems. Everything from your standard 3 million document Imaging Repository to systems with 10′s and even more than 100 million documents (thanks to FAST ESP!) As I look back on SharePoint 2003 …
Oct
24
SPC2009 Decompression
Well, here I am, 24 hours past the SPC2009 ride. Now I feel like I’m on a long slow decompression ascension (lame scuba reference) to the public launch of SP2010 next year some time. Now that the SP2010 veil is lifted, I’m finally free to talk about some incredible new SP2010 features that are abslutely CLUTCH for scaling SharePoint …
Oct
14
SP2010 Coming Out Party!
I’ll talk about the SharePoint 2009 conference in a sec, but a few have been asking where I been the last couple months? Well, I’ve been grinding on a huge solution implementation for a gigantic customer that unfortunately must remain nameless. It will be the largest SharePoint based document imaging system that I’ve had the pleasure …
SP2010 ECM Book!
