Microsoft SharePoint 2013: Designing and Architecting Solutions

Chapter 5. Designing for SharePoint storage requirements

In this chapter, you will learn about:

• Database engine requirements for SharePoint 2013.

• Initial optimization and configuration of SQL Server for SharePoint 2013.

• Overview of SharePoint Server 2013 databases and their roles.

• How to plan for capacity and database system requirements.

• The new Shredded Storage functionality in SharePoint 2013.

• Enabling business intelligence (BI) capabilities within the SharePoint Server 2013 platform.

At its very core, Microsoft SharePoint 2013 is a set of database-driven web applications and services. As such, the database layer is arguably the most important layer of the SharePoint 2013 architecture. Therefore, to produce a highly efficient and performance-based ...