Wednesday, November 05, 2008

SPSFAQ – Scalability and the fact that Sharepoint isn’t a database.

Some people seem to think that Microsoft Business Intelligence is Sharepoint.  Sharepoint is one piece to the puzzle, and it can scale, but there are some inherent limits that need to be avoided.  Eli has a few.

The 2,000 rule: because stored procedure calls to SQL Server slow down as you reach 2,000 items, have less than that in a view on a List. Less than 200 ideally to have optimum performance.

SPSFAQ

Speaking of scalability & Microsoft applications… Windows 3.1 is dead.  Long live Windows 3.11.

Microsoft has officially retired Windows 3.1

news.bbc.co.uk — "An application has expectedly quit. Windows 3.x has come to the closing moments of its long life. On 1 November Microsoft stopped issuing licences for the software that made its debut in May 1990 in the US. The various versions of Windows 3.x (including 3.11) released in the early 1990s, were the first of Microsoft's graphical user interfaces .."

http://digg.com/microsoft/Microsoft_has_officially_retired_Windows_3_1

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