Showing posts with label list migration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label list migration. Show all posts

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Getting to know the DB of SharePoint 2007

When I was searching on SharePoint 2007 database analyzers initially I got so many other products including links to main SharePoint Migration Tools available. Those tools do provide analyzing to a certain extent but it can be costly due to licensing issues.
So my friend suggested to refine my search! I did! And the results were marvelous :)
The results I got were a basic tool Microsoft provides free of charge which, amazingly, gives a whole load of information on the DB.

The tool, which is SPDiag v1.0, is included in the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0, available for download at the following locations:
Documentation for SPDiag is available from those download pages as well.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Searching about SharePoint 2007 large List migration

 When migrating from SharePoint 2007, moving large lists can be a problem. In the internet it is a bit hard to find information about this in one place. I had to go through this trouble while I was researching on SharePoint 2007 to 2010 migration.
 When I was searching with the keyword "database analyze" search engines return a host of posts that are related to basic Ms SQL Server administration commands and scenarios.
 However the Bamboo SharePoint Analyzer does give an idea about the Database in SharePoint in a somewhat higher level. Thus does not provide much details.
  So the effective way is to search using keyword " large list migration in SharePoint ". This is effective because SharePoint data is stored in Lists, and technically a SharePoint database is a "List".