SharePoint for DBA's Part 2

SHAREPOINT FOR DBAS PART 2

Tom Resing

Microsoft Certified Master - SharePoint

Principal Software Engineer

Applied Information Sciences

Agenda

•Review Part 1•Business Connectivity Services•Demo 1•List Scalability•Demo 2•Resources

SharePoint Database Maintenance

•Review from Part 1•Content Databases store all of the lists and libraries

•Configuration Database stores SharePoint Configuration

•Content Databases can be moved by detaching from current SharePoint Farm and attaching to a new Farm

SharePoint Database Maintenance

•Question from Part 1 – How to set auto update statistics?•Update statistics handled by SharePoint• For 2007 it’s a SharePoint Timer Job see

• For 2010 it’s the SharePoint Health Wizard

Database maintenance for SharePoint Server 2010 – MS TechNet

Published: May 12, 2011

Summary: Learn how to maintain the databases that host data and configuration settings for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products. Read guidelines and study examples of the recommended database maintenance strategies and tasks.

Authors: Bill Baer and Bryan Porter

Technical Reviewer: Paul S. Randal

BUSINESS CONECTIVITY SERVICESConnect SharePoint to External Data – Read and Write in SharePoint 2010

Business Connectivity Services

•Connect to Databases or Web Services similar to Native SharePoint Lists

•Read Data from SQL Server•Write Back to SQL Server•Take Data Offline with SharePoint Workspace and synchronize back when Online

Demo 1•Microsoft’s Information Worker VM has a Business Connectivity Services External List built in

HOW MANY ITEMS IS TOO MANY ?Can you have to many items in your list or documents in your library?

Large Lists in SharePoint

“if a read or write database operation, such as a query, causes more than 5,000 rows to be locked at the same time, then it is more efficient for SQL Server to escalate the lock to the entire table until the database operation is completed. When this lock escalation occurs, it prevents other users from accessing the table.”

Demo 2•Connect to the Geonames Database as an External List

Resources…tasks that administrators can perform against SharePoint databases (SharePoint 2007)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932744

Database maintenance for SharePoint Server 2010http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262731.aspx

Designing large lists and maximizing list performance (SharePoint Server 2010)http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262813.aspx

Accessing External Datahttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/gg620626

Remote Blob Storage

Summary: • RBS is supported by SQL 2008 R2. • Enterprise is required for remote storage. • EBS is supported in 2010 but not in the future.

Links• FAQ: SharePoint 2010 Remote BLOB Storage (

RBS), 5/24/2010, Jie Lie (MSFT)

• Overview of RBS (SharePoint Foundation 2010), Updated: June 9, 2011, Microsoft TechNet

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