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I'll be there along with Microsoft’s own Steve Resnick, Richard Crane, Chris Bowen, and Rob Walters, along with Vitale Caturano’s Mauro Cardarelli, will be on-hand to meet, chat, and sign their books.

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Microsoft Technology Center

890 Winter Street, Waltham MA

4:00 – 7:00 PM

FEATURED BOOKS:

·         Essential SharePoint 2007 by Scott Jamison, Mauro Cardarelli, and  Susan Hanley

·         Essential Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) For .NET Framework 3.5 by Steve Resnick, Richard Crane, Chris Bowen, and Rob Walters

·         Accelerated SQL Server 2008 by Rob Walters, Michael Coles, Robin Dewson, Donald Farmer, Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati, and Robert Rae

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SharePoint content databases can be any size. There are no hard limits.  There - I've said it.

I hear customers and partners still claiming that there's a 50GB size limit. There is NOT. It's a guideline, not a rule. Let's say you want to store 1TB of data in SharePoint...no problem. You could have 2-3 content databases with 400GB each. Or one very large content database. SQL 2005 and MOSS 2007 would handle that fine.

So why the limit?  Managability. It's simply faster to restore smaller databases.

The 50GB myth comes from a practical limitation that administrators put on themselves; it's simpler and easier to manage a SharePoint environment when databases are small. Many customers I work with still don't have the hardware, people, and time that they need to have a real recovery plan.  Why?  Because in many cases, SharePoint grew out of pure business need and caught on like wildfire. I know large customers who are still running SharePoint like a departmental application. Once they realize that it's a business critical application - at enterprise scale - governance (along with funding) is added to the master plan.  Do you want to convince your manager or business lead (i.e. the one with the budget) that you need more resources?  Shameless plug: get them a copy of my book.  They will understand SharePoint better and realize the need for governance, planning, and better resources for IT.

One more thing: If you're looking for a better way to backup and restore SharePoint, especially for large databases, check out Data Protection Manager 2007. Why? It supports change-only, agent-based backups and single site/single file restore in WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007.  I'll be doing some testing with large content databases over the next couple of weeks and sharing my results.

In the meantime, here are some great posts by Joel Oleson on database and site collection sizes:

Content Database Size:  http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2006/08/01/684691.aspx, http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2006/08/03/687995.aspx

Site Collection Sizing: http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/01/31/tips-on-site-collection-sizing.aspx

Whew!  Just five days after the official June 15 release date, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, Borders.com, and Bookpool.com have all sold out of our new SharePoint book! 

The good news: they'll all be getting more in shortly.

I just read the first review I've seen for Essential SharePoint 2007.  I was blown away.

http://www.chapmanconsulting.ca/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=144

I'm glad to see that the non-traditional approach we took for this book did not go unnoticed. Thanks for the great review, Chris!

If you are at TechEd this week, be sure to stop by the bookstore between 11:30 and noon. Immediately after my session, I will be signing copies of my book Essential SharePoint 2007: Delivering High-Impact Collaboration at the conference bookstore.

If you're not at TechEd, you can get a great deal on the book here:  http://www.bookpool.com/sm/0321421744