Tag Archive: SQL

Apr
18

Top 10 mistakes made by SharePoint 2010 administrators

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 …

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Nov
30

To BLOB or not to BLOB. RBS in SharePoint 2010

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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 …

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Mar
10

SharePoint 2010 with a virtual SQL 2008 database. Will it perform?

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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 …

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