What am I supposed to do when a good friend (and former Bamboo employee) turns against SharePoint? Should I un-friend him on Facebook? Maybe “fix” the brakes on his car? What do you guys think?  -  Dooley

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SharePoint Performance Sinks, Swims with SQL Server Throughput (SearchContentManagement)
When things slow down in a SharePoint system, the initial fix is often to add more Web servers to better handle the load. But those front-end servers rely on the same back-end database server, and the back end is where SharePoint usually encounters the most performance problems. That’s because it essentially relies on SQL Server as both a database and a file system.  It’s not that SQL Server isn’t a speed demon; it can be. But SharePoint’s processing demands tend to highlight SQL Server’s most common bottleneck: disk I/O. Continue reading this entry »