October 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1008 pages
46h 16m
English
Nearly all SharePoint content is stored in databases, including all document library content, list items, document metadata, and web parts. There are only two exceptions to this. The first is if the database server uses a concept known as Remote BLOB Storage (RBS), which allows for the storage of the documents, or BLOBs (binary large objects), in another storage medium such as a file server or an archive. This concept is discussed in detail in Chapter 9, “Managing and Maintaining SQL Server in a SharePoint Environment.” The other exception to this rule is the full-text search index, which is stored in flat-file format (see the following sections on the Search Service Application role). In some rare cases, ...
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