Here’s a key thing to remember when you’re designing the SharePoint applications (Extranet/Intranet) end-user perceived performance matters, and SharePoint’s performance has come a long way, particularly with the new 2013 release. The new release boasts: • A content-first focus with active download management• Smooth page transitions with animations and a better download strategy• Richer and… Continue reading Large Scale Document Repositories with High Availability in SharePoint
Search architecture contains both search components and databases; building this search architecture is highly dependent on several factors, including high availability and fault tolerance, content available, estimated amount of page views and queries per second. Search in SharePoint 2013 comes with a fresh architecture and powerful components, categorized as a Feeding Chain, Search Core, Query… Continue reading SharePoint 2013 Search Architecture and Components
Recently during a discussion with eminent BI geeks at work – we had a discussion how SSRS allows us to display an entire record set on just a single page. Considering the amount of performance overhead involved in displaying this record set on that single page. Just how much would that be? To figure out… Continue reading Performance Impact with Single Page Rendering in SSRS
This post covers yet another nightmare that I had faced while working on one of the “terrible” areas in SharePoint. Yep – this post will cover Data View Web Part. The reason why I call it “terrible” is not because it is difficult to understand; it’s because with Data View Web Part(DVWP), one tends to… Continue reading SharePoint Data View Web Part