[AccessD] !RE: Database vs Sharepoint

John,

<<Abstraction always comes at a price.>>

  Excellent point.  SharePoint is a fantastic tool for what it was designed
to do; workflow management and collaboration.  But to try and use it as a
database?  No, definitely not.

Jim. 

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Subject: Re: [AccessD] !RE: Database vs Sharepoint

 >   My somewhat subtle point there was that "slow" is a relative term.

LOL.  I didn't find it all that subtle!  ;)

And yes, if you look at what they are doing (sharepoint), using a SQL Server
to hold denormalized 
data and then normalize / denormalize on the fly, it is never going to be in
the same league as a 
true database.

It is amusing that in the original post a "sharepoint expert" (not a
database expert is implied 
here) is "pronouncing" that sharepoint is much better than a true database,
when sharepoint is in 
fact built inside of a true database.

So much for "expert".

And again, the point has to be "better than what FOR what?".  It seems to me
(and I am speaking from 
immense ignorance) that Sharepoint is attempting to abstract away the
complexities of a true 
database so that the "average" user can use a database without having to
know how to use a database.

Abstraction always comes at a price.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Jim Dettman wrote:
>   My somewhat subtle point there was that "slow" is a relative term.  In
> some cases, it depends on how much hardware you throw at something.
> 
>   Look at Vista.  Folks that bought a brand new PC thought it was OK, but
> the 90% of us that tried it without buying something new found it "slow"
and
> not all that great.
> 
>   My guess would be that as part of a University, your pretty heavy on
> hardware (at least more so then most data centers).  Most SharePoint
setups
> I've seen are always done with one or two servers at best.
>   
> 
> Jim. 

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