Hi Can we have multiple cofiguration database for WSS farm server or Sharepoint farm? Here farm may be single server or mutilple server. How many content database be associated to a single MOSS site? Here my mean of site is top level site eg: http://www.abc.com. Difference between Cofiguration and content Database?Ram Sharma

Ram -- Each SharePoint farm can only have one configuration database associated with it, regardless of how many servers are in the farm or whether the farm is running Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v3 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. That is a one to one relationship; the best way to think of it is that the configuration database is the farm, that database contains all of the settings and configurations that define your farm and its components within it. A SharePoint site collection cannot be broken across content databases, it and all of its lists, documents and subsites (known as "webs" in the SharePoint object model) must be wholly contained within a single content database. A content database can hold multiple site collections, and multiple content databases can be associated with a single web application, but site collections cannot use more than one content database. Content databases literally contain the "contents" of a SharePoint site collection. The documents uploaded into it, the lists created in it, the data stored in those lists, are all stored in the content database. The details of a farm's configuration, its web applications, and its site collections are all stored in the configuration database. The config DB is the central component of a SharePoint farm; it is the hub that the farm's content, its spokes if you will, radiate out from. There are also databases associated with some Shared Service Providers (SSPs), such as the Search database, but those are much more specialized according to the needs of each individual SSP. JohnMCTS: WSS v3, MOSS 2007, and SCOM 2007 Now Available on Amazon - The SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide. Coming Soon - The SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery Guide. My blog: My Central Admin.

You also can never have a farm which mixes WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 servers.2010 Books: SPF 2010; SPS 2010; SPD 2010; InfoPath 2010; Workflow etc. 2007 Books: WSS 3.0; MOSS 2007; SPD 2007; InfoPath 2007; PerformancePoint; SSRS; Workflow Both lists also include books in French; German; Spanish with even more languages in the 2007 list.

Hi John, Thank you for your valuable reply. John, I want to start with custom webparts, custom event handlers and work on list data so can you please recommend me some usefull books or links. Thanks!! Ram Sharma