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

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Remove Project Server Completely from SharePoint 2016

My SharePoint 2016 environment have MS Project Server. I want to remove MS project Server from my environment completely and cleanly. I want to remove its database schema, service application, ...
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Finding original site template id used for main site without access to Sharepoint 2013 server

I'm trying to recover a sharepoint 2013 site by installing sharepoint 2013 in a new domain. I only have access to database backups from the original server. One option I've seen uses a query based on ...
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A SharePoint 2007 Content Database has been migrated but SharePoint is still trying to access the old Database server

We had a legacy SharePoint 2007 which was using an old version of SQL Database. The Content Database was then migrated to a different SQL Server that was running on a newer version. This has caused ...
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You cannot call a method on Null valued expression at: $File = $Web.GetFile([Guid]$Result.Id)

I have queried AllDocs table using Powershell and can see GUID values of Id, SiteId and WebId, But I am getting Error: You cannot call a method on Null valued expression at this line below: $File = $...
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Storing data to a separate SQL database instead of content database

Our team is planning to move away from storing to SharePoint content database and save the data instead to an own designed SQL database. The goal is to use SharePoint just as an interface. My task is ...
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Upgrade-SPContentDatabase fails after installing updates

After installing the latest Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2016, I tried to upgrade content database but It gives an error each time. 100.00% : SPContentDatabase Name=WSS_Content Finalizing the ...
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How to programmatically upload file to host named site collections?

I am new to SharePoint, I want to know how host named site collections, path based site collections, and their files are stored in SharePoint databases. How to upload files to host named site ...
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Setting up a “garage sale” on sharepoint

Our company is looking to sell a number of retired electronics (computers, etc). Previously we would have someone manually monitor and make sales, however this has proven to be inefficient in a large ...
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Remove MS Project Server from SharePoint 2016

Background: We are currently running SharePoint 2016 Enterprise. We also apply the monthly cumulative patches every month as well. After the patches are applied we run the “ps config” using this ...
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Can we use SQL Server 2016 for SharePoint 2013?

I have a SharePoint 2013 Foundation single server farm. My current SQL version is "SQL Server 2008 R2". I have another server with SQL Server 2016 version and I want to move all content databases to ...
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Cannot Delete content Database (having no sites) using SSOM SharePoint 2019

I'm trying to delete a content database (having no sites) using below code: _oDB.Delete(); where "_oDB" is object of SPContentDatabase and the content database exists. However, I'm getting below ...
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Is it possible to create site collection after creating new content database in Sharepoint 2019 CSOM (C#)?

I'm working on SharePoint 2019 environment. I have just created site collection programmatically (CSOM) using MSDN Link However, I want to create a content database through CSOM and point this newly ...
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Migration of SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint 2016 [closed]

After Mounting the database on SharePoint 2016, below is an error I'm getting: Could not load file or assembly 'VDR_Mail_Event_Solution, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=...
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migration sharepoint 2010 to 2013

I try to migrate site collection from SharePoint 2010 to 2013. But I can't see my site in the new URL, I have a default SharePoint site. PS C:\Users\svc-bpm-sysadmin> Test-SPSite -Identity http://...
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Restoring a database on multiple server architecture with two front end servers

I am having a multiserver architecture with two front end servers. I want to restore a content database in one of the web application and it should reflect on both the site collections. But when i ...
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Error “Move-SPSite : Execution Timeout Expired.”

I want to move a 30GB Site Collection to another content database. This should be done with PowerShell with the Move-SPSite command. After about 40 Minutes the job stops with the following error ...
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Sharepoint databases structure

I need to know how the structure of databases of Sharepoint works, what is any databases, when they are created and this kind of stuff... I'm using a Sharepoint 2016 on premises.
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2013 to 2016: Upgrade all DB's? Or just Content Databases?

I am in the process of completing a Farm Upgrade from 2013 to 2016. I have the new 2016 Farm built and configured, and am ready to transfer the databases. I know that I don't need to move the ...
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Sharepoint site still down even after restore the content databse to new web app

We’ve a major issue in our main intranet portal. It’s down with a lot of errors that were not fixed by investigating on event viewer and ULS logs. However, I’ve restored the content database to a ...
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Same web application with content db in two separate database servers

Is it possible to have same web application with two site collections having content databases in two different SQL servers? If so, can farm back and restore method from CA be used for restoration?
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Low free space on a SharePoint Content DB

We have to upload up to 133 video files to a SharePoint 2016 Site but there is a very low free space in the content DB. There are multiple sites for the same content DB but only 1 site collection is ...
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can you shrink db when dbo DoscStreams is almost full?

I am not an expert in SharePoint server maintenance and i received an notice that one of the database has reached it 93% usage of disk space. i know from research that dbo.DocStreams contains the ...
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Mount-SPContentDatabase rollback after upgrade

We need to move/use a content database from old to new web application. Scenario goes like: Detach content database from Old Web Application with Windows Classic Authentication mode Attach content ...
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Can i get when the sharepoint databases have been backuped using “Get-SPDatabase”

I have 2 on-premises farms 2013 & 2016. and i want to get all the sharepoint databases names,if they need updates and when they have been backup-ed, now i find this script to get the name and ...
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Get List of Site Collection under Content Database

Is there a way I could view the list of Site Collection under a specific Content Database? Doing it one-by-one on Central Admin is not desirable since there's a lot.
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What can be done before Content Database is connected?

Soon we'll be grading our SharePoint environment in an overnight upgrade... I'm currently prepping our servers to make the transition as painless as possible, but what sort of configuration can be ...
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Procedure to refresh MySites content database in dev with production data

I would like to know the appropriate procedure to refresh MySites in dev by using a production content database backup.
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What negative impact can occur if I detach a Sharepoint content database file location via SQL?

The end goal is to move the MDF file of a non-critical Sharepoint site collection to a different drive. The database server/name/etc... is going to be unchanged. Microsoft basically states that the ...
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Project server 2013 database locked

Today we noticed that our Project server 2013 database is locked somehow. Weird thing is, when we check whether from CA that site SC or via SharePoint shell, we get answer that site collection is not ...
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SharePoint content DB status is in stopped state for all the content DB from central admin under manage content DB section

When i tried to create a new site collection, we found " SharePoint content DB status is in stopped state for all the content DB from central admin under manage content DB section. " We did perform ...
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Risks of increasing file size limit above default of 250 mb

My company is new to SharePoint. We have an on-premise installation with the file size limit set to the default of 250 mb. We've had a request to increase that limit to 500 mb. The Microsoft article ...
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The content database on the server is temporarily unavailable (sharepoint online)

Currently I am working on an application based on sharepoint add-in webpart(sharepoint hosted) in sharepoint online which was getting deployed successfully till yesterday, but today when I deployed it,...
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How accurate is the Site Setting/Storage Metrics menu for content database size?

I'm speccing a Site Collection, it's been proposed to merge two site collections in to a single, global site collection. I've read that a site collection has a 100GB recommended limit, so I'll go ...
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How to get SP list versioning properties from WSS_Content database?

I need to set all list versioning properties via csom. All properties I usually set with following code: SP.List l = new SP.List(...); l.EnableModeration = true; //1 l.EnableVersioning ...
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SharePoint web applications and content database mismatch

When I use Get-SPWebApplication command on sharepoint sever got 9 web applications names.When I use Get-SPContentDatabase got 15 content databases.How this mismatch happened??any idea???
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The attach operation cannot continue because another object in this farm already contains the same ID

My SQL DBA Team decided to change the SQL version and they did migration from one sql server to other sql server and when i tired to do add content database operation from central admin it gives this ...
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Repair Automatically Disabled/Greyed out

I'm trying to resolve some issues under monitoring, the main one being " Content databases contain orphaned items". However, the 'repair automatically' is disabled and I don't know how to ...
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Unable to upgrade SharePoint Admin Content Database

I saw the following status: "Database is up to date, but some sites are not completely upgraded." under manage databases upgrade status. I upgraded most of the databases using upgrade database command,...
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DocStream, DocToStream compile lines into a file

In SharePoint 2013 Ent to database WSS_Content there are tables DocStream and DocToStream, they store information about the file in the form of binary data. I noticed that in SP 2013 the file is ...
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SP2013: Broken WSS_Content database is restored, some documents are not displayed

Please tell me, after the fall of SQL Server the database was restored (Backup Symantec) only by 93%, after CHECKDB, a lot of errors in the DocStream table, which contains just the binary data, i.e. ...
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Sharepoint Foundation Databases, is more better?

Accidental sharepoint admin here trying to get familiar and fix some issues. Here is a pic from servers in our Farm screen. I'm noticing that we have two sharepoint foundation server databases? Is ...
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Create Content Database from Farm Application Page

This issue seems like it should be very easy to resolve, however it has taken hours and makes no sense. Case: Custom application page with simple form fields. When the form is filled out by user, ...
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How to restore existing Site Collection Content DB to a SharePoint Site Collection

I have a Site Collection Content DB back up. I want to create/ restore to existing site collection. Are there any ways to do that?
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To retrieve site lists where user has access from DB

I am trying to retrieve all the sites a particular user has access from the content database. But not able to get all the sites. Somehow I can get site collections where user has access but still not ...
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SharePoint update status: Cannot Upgrade content database

I did an update of SharePoint 2013 using December 2017 CU. In central admin I see this info: Configuration database version: 15.0.4989.1001 Status: Upgrade available In Upgrade Status page I see ...
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Restore-SPSite : Invalid object name 'Sites'

I tried to rename the site collection host header (see post here) and it did not work, so I found this blog and thought I could give Backup-SPSite, Remove-SPSite and Restore-SPSite a try. I used this ...
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How to export one site collection and restore it in a different environment when build versions of the farms are different?

I am using Backup-SPSite and Restore-SPSite to restore a site collection, but the problem is that I am getting the following error: What is causing this error :- Restore-SPSite : <nativehr>...
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SharePoint content database shrink operation recommended or not

We have a large content database with 200 GB space in SP 2013 and it consists of two large site collections with 100 GB space each. We plan to permanently delete one site collection of size 100GB in ...
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SharePoint 2013 too many content databases

I joined a company where there are 10 content databases created for 10 site collections(SP2013 version). All the databases together has less than 80GB content. Well I don't know why they created ...
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SharePoint 2010 Site Collection Maximum Size

Title says it all, I hope! We have a SharePoint 2010 SP1 and one of our collections regularly goes over their quota (and ask for us to extend it). We would like to know if there is an absolute ...

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