Ars Technica

Trying to locate SharePoint databases

I'm pretty new to WSS and I was using FrontPage to modify one of our SharePoint pages and I apparently messed something up because when I go to add a web part the page crashes.<BR><BR>Anyway, the fix ...
Computerworld

Avoiding ginormous transaction logs with SharePoint databases

There isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t hear or read about an organization seeing ginormous transaction log (.ldf) files, while the associated data (.mdf) file is at the size it should be when ...
ITWire

Metalogix StoragePoint Customers Reduce Their SharePoint Content Databases by More Than 90 Percent While Reducing Storage Costs

EMC World Demonstration and Customers Highlight the Value of StoragePoint as it Improves SharePoint Performance and Scalability WASHINGTON, DC, - Metalogix Software, the leading provider in content ...
Ars Technica

Sharepoint Services, almost out of drive space, moving things off isn't creating more

No, shrinking the database will not bring down SharePoint. Letting the disk fill up to 0KB where the database resides will bring down SharePoint (and take that database offline in SQL). The SharePoint ...