October 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1008 pages
46h 16m
English
To force SharePoint to create new site collections in a specific content database, the target database should be the only one with the Ready status; all the other databases associated with the web application should be set Offline.
Taking a database offline means that from this point on, no new site collection will be created in that database. However, the database is still usable; users can still upload and download content, view web pages, and process workflows, and new subsites under an existing site collection can still be created in it. If a one-to-one site collection to content database association is needed, taking the hosting database offline is a method to accomplish this.
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