A Content Database is an SQL Server database where the content of a SharePoint intranet (extranet, public web) is stored.

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Checking if the content database is in read-only using javascript?

Hi I'm pretty new to SharePoint and javascript. I am trying to check if the content database is read-only, and if it is then preform a function eg. if ...
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Can't restore backup of content database using stsadm after migration to SQL 2008 R2

WSS 3.0 on Server 2003 within a Domain. I set the server up 3.5 years ago along with a test setup. It's the first and only SharePoint install. I recently had to migrate the content database from ...
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“No connectivity with the server” for files in only one content DB?

SharePoint 2010 / SQL Server 2008 R2 One of my users reported a problem opening files yesterday. Upon opening a file she would receive this string of error messages: Clicking "Retry Open" leads to: ...
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Any way to determine what web application a content database was last attached to?

We are currently doing a 2010->2013 DB migration and attaching content databases back and forth. During the course of the migration I lost some notes on which content database belonged to which web ...
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“a duplicate content type '<content type name>' has been found” error message

I have just upgraded customer environment to SharePoint 2010. I have been having minor issues with content types of which some I managed to resolve except the following one: We have a SharePoint 2010 ...
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Restore of content db fails to restore top-level site collection

I have a backup of a content db restored to Sql server as WSS_Content_Live I have a brand new SP installation setup with AutoInstaller, so we have a port 80 web site called Portal Home. I have ...
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Move Site Collections Based on Content Database

I have a content DB which is growing huge and so I want to move Different Site Collections to Different Content Databases based on the Managed path that Site collection belongs to .Can some one Help ...
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SP central admin Cannot connect to the configuration database after reinstalling sql server 2008 r2

I have just re-installed SQL Server 2008 R2 in my Windows Server, but after installing the SQL Server, I am unable to open my central admin. On opening the central admin its showing me the message - ...
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Site Columns and Content Type missing

My task is the create a replication of a live site collection on a pre production server after the move none of the site collection Content type or site columns are listed. So far I have copied the ...
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Content Database size for SharePoint 2010

I am trying to Detach an existing content db from my sql server by deleting its .mdf, .ldf files and while I am trying to add new content db (which I got from other server) whose size is 50 GB my sql ...
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Host Named Site Collections with own Content DB, and problems (Top Nav Bar, and force to log on always)

This is the scenario: I. All Site Collections have thier own Content Database II. Site Collection A is Root Site Collection (created directly under Web Application = has exact same url as Web ...
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Applying wsp solution file to Sharepoint site collection programmatically

I am trying to deploy a sitecollection with a content database attached to each site collection. I was able to deploy site collections with individual content databases for each sitecollection, ...
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CU October 2011 Invalid object name 'Webs'

I've runed the CU October 2011 and Sharepoint Configuration Wizard failed after executing, however the farm build version changed to: 14.0.6112.5000 as expected. In ULS i've seen error: Invalid name ...
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Migrating document libraries from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010

I need help in my migration process. First I have a test environment which is configured for SharePoint 2010 and I need to migrate a web application from SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint 2010 ...
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Create a new Central Administration Content Database

Currently the Content Database for my Central Administration site has exploded to over 50GB, and expands to over 100GB everynight (leaving 50GB of free space). After much investigating I have ...
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Geting added or deleted users from SPContentDatabase

I am trying to get changes from a content database. Below is the code I have used to get the changes, but I get zero results. How to make it work? SPChangeQuery query = new SPChangeQuery(false, ...
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Database Statistics Timer Job got hangs on initialized state

Env: MOSS 2007 SP2 64 bit architecture, 4 wfe and1 app server, wins server 2003, Sql 2005 . I have a site collection in web app which is reached 50 GB. Due to this, the Site collection is not ...
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Can't start configuration database service

TL;DR: I can't start the SQL Server service that my content database is on. I installed SharePoint Foundation 2010 on a Win7 box a while back. About a year ago I disabled some services (in ...
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If there is a need to rollback in patching, whether the content databases should be restored?

I'm planning to patch new CUs to SharePoint MOSS 2007. I tried to patch in staging environment and it is completely fine. Now I'm planning to patch on production environment and so I need to plan a ...
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using database attach for migrating MOSS 2007 site to sharepoint 2010 gives error “HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 Connection: close”

I am trying to migrate a MOSS 2007 site to sharepoint 2010 using database attach approach. i have taken a backup of the 2007 site content db, created a new web application, deleted the content DB from ...
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Error while attaching content db to a different server

I got back up of content db from a demo server and trying to attach it to a newly created web application in my personal copy of same demo server but not up to date. however I am getting this error, ...
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Recreat Clustaer Data base

I have SharePoint farm in my Company contain seven servers, we configure HTTPS, Cluster Database server on two servers connected with SAN storage The machines that have Cluster Database was removed ...
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Movement of Content DB on different domain giving Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

I have a portal running in my office environment. 1 WFE + 1 SQLServer + 1 Domain Controller..I've created the same environment ditto even the domain name is same in my home virtual environment where ...
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Different usages shown in SQL server 2008 and SharePoint 2010

The content database size in SQL server is 84GB while shown up in Sharepoint 2010 - Site Collections Quotas and Locks is 698GB. There is a discrepancy of 15GB usage. Why the usages are different?