Here's a step-by-step instruction on how to create a number of site collections, content databases and how to combine them.

I've heard stories of SharePoint set-ups where the transaction logs grow to match or exceed the size of their corresponding databases within an hour.

The Metalogix BLOBulator tool provides a health check for your SharePoint content database that will give you the knowledge to take action. After you run BLOBulator on a single SharePoint server ...

What do you do when you can't avoid huge transaction logs in SharePoint and your files are too large? Last month, I wrote about how to avoid having ginormous transaction logs within SharePoint ...

I am trying to migrate a Windows Sharepoint server from one machine to another. However, I can't figure out how to connect to an existing content database ...

But at some point, SharePoint Central Administration showed that the database was "offline" or something to that effect, which finally let me delete the service and finish the update. Woo.