Today marks exactly 12 years since I started this blog. My first post went up on 3rd October 2008 and the posts that followed went on to shape my career with opportunities am so thankful for to everyone that gave them to me. Unfortunately, in the last 4 years, I took a back seat from blogging here and later on did a slight career pivot, from SharePoint into the world of data engineering and data science. I had thought long and hard about retiring this blog because I had initially dedicated it to a vertical field of SharePoint, at least that's what it was known for anyway. However, I realized that I can still continue to use it, albeit in a new field being data engineering and data science which I've embraced over the last 4 years, since my last post, while at the same time retain my blogging journey. In there is a message as well, to those that might be looking for hope, wondering whether the pivot is even possible. As part of rebranding this blog and making it fit for purpos
Hello SharePoint Community. Don't we just love sharing code sometimes? Well I figured this might help someone somewhere in the community. First off, some basic house keeping. Are you still running #Microsoft #SharePoint Server 2010? Are you looking at migrating/upgrading to a more recent version of SharePoint but you would like to first clean up your environment and potentially reduce the size of your content databases? Did you activate version history on some of your document libraries? Did you forget to set the maximum limit of versions to retain on some of your documents libraries? Do you wonder why some document libraries have grown so much in size and yet they don't have a lot of documents stored in them?