This post was originally published on Benjamin Athawes’ blog on Saturday 16th April 2011. Working mainly on the administration and architecture side of SharePoint, I don’t get to do a lot of development. That’s not necessarily a bad thing as it means that I can be more objective when it comes to deploying solutions to …
Tag Archive: SQL
Nov
30
To BLOB or not to BLOB. RBS in SharePoint 2010
To BLOB or not to BLOB? That is the question. This week I have been looking into Remote BLOB Storage for SharePoint 2010. The idea behind BLOB storage is a simple one; rather than storing all your files and meta data in your SQL you move the data (or the Binary Large OBjects) out onto …
Mar
10
SharePoint 2010 with a virtual SQL 2008 database. Will it perform?
Many people have many different opinions on this subject. Is it wise to virtualise SQL? I think it is fine. I was once not so sure but visiting SharePoint best practices conference last year as well as a data management event I now feel pretty confident. Also with our beast of a hyper-v setup I …








