Following on from customer related issues in Office 365, there are a number of technology issues that give me concern. I will caveat this that this is based on my last project, and by the time I write this the Office 365 SharePoint platform could have changed to address some of these problems. Continue reading “Observations on Office 365 – Part 2”
QueryThrottleException
Looking up against Large Lists in Office 365
So, I had an issue that I’ve a customer who wanted to have some items look up against a large list. (In fact, it was a large document library). This large list had more than 5000 items. This is a little unfortunate, due to a painful and annoying quirk in SharePoint’s design. Continue reading “Looking up against Large Lists in Office 365”
Dealing with Large Lists Part 1 – What is throttling and how it causes difficulty
‘Large’ lists – lists with over a few thousand items – can cause problems when you’re developing for SharePoint, and the whole topic is kind of complicated. So what’s the problem?
Well, fundamentally the issue is inefficient queries being run against SharePoint lists. An inefficient query against a list with a small number of items isn’t a big deal, but with larger lists (over 5000 items) SQL server has to escalate from a row-level lock to a table-level lock. This can hold up other users while the table is locked.
So, what are the limits, what options are there with throttling, and what strategies are there for mitigating the effects of query throttling? Continue reading “Dealing with Large Lists Part 1 – What is throttling and how it causes difficulty”
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