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SharePoint Database SQL Query Tips4

Shantha Kumar — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:05:15 +0000

Where are the Documents or files we uploaded or attached stored in sharepoint? Many of them know, those files are stored under SharePoint Content Database. But on which database table, on which format?

For that, i did a quick research on that, and here i give those results,

The AllDocStreams table in SharePoint Content Database stores the Document Contents.
The Contents of the document are stored in Content Column in the AllDocStream table.
The Content column is the Image Datatype, (stores in the format of Binary).

I provide a simple SQL Query to retrieve the Document List Name,File Name, URL, and the Content (Binary Format)

SELECT AllLists.tp_Title AS ‘List Name’,
AllDocs.LeafName AS ‘File Name’,
AllDocs.DirName AS ‘URL’,
AllDocStreams.Content AS ‘Document Contnt (Binary)’
FROM AllDocs
JOIN AllDocStreams
ON
AllDocs.Id=AllDocStreams.Id
JOIN AllLists
ON
AllLists.tp_id = AllDocs.ListId

By Sooner, I’ll come up with other interesting Sql Query Tips.

SharePoint Database SQL Query Tips3

Shantha Kumar — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:33:00 +0000

Now, we are going to retrive the file details from AllDocs Database. Which has the informations about the files stored in SharePoint List or Library.

– Returns all document from all lists availabe in WebApplication
SELECT AllDocs.Leafname AS FileName’,
                 AllDOcs.Dirname AS ‘Folder Path’,
                 AllLists.tp_Title AS ‘List Title’,
                 Webs.Title AS ‘Web Title’
FROM AllDocs
JOIN AllLists
ON
AllLists.tp_Id=AllDocs.ListId
JOIN Webs
ON
Webs.Id=AllLists.tp_WebId
ORDER BY webs.title

If you need the file informations about particular document type. Use the Extension column to check the document type.

For Ex., The following Query returns only master pages on all WebSites,

– Returns master pages in WebApplication for all WebSites
SELECT AllDocs.Leafname AS FileName’,
                 AllDocs.Dirname AS ‘Folder Path’,
                 AllLists.tp_Title AS ‘List Title’,
                 Webs.Title AS ‘Web Title’
FROM AllDocs
JOIN AllLists
ON
AllLists.tp_Id=AllDocs.ListId
JOIN Webs
ON
Webs.Id=AllLists.tp_WebId
WHERE Extension=’master’
ORDER BY Webs.Title

Like the above query, we can get all type of documents.

SharePoint Database SQL Query Tips2

Shantha Kumar — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:56:45 +0000

Today, we are going to see the query for returning Webs and Site Collections available in the Database (WebApplication).

–Returns Total Number of Site Collections in WebApplication
select count(*) as ‘Total Site Collection’ from sites

–Returns Root Site Title for each Site Collection available in WebApplication
select Title as ‘Root Web Title’, Sites.RootWebId, Sites.Id as ‘Site Collection ID’ from webs inner join Sites on Webs.Id = Sites.RootWebId

–Returns Total Web Sites in WebApplication
select count(*) from Webs

–Returns WebSite Title and Site Id
select Title as ‘Site title’,FullUrl, SiteId as ‘Site Collection Id’ from Webs order by SiteId

–Returns Total number of Web Sites under each SiteCollection
select SiteId, count(*) as ‘Total Sub Sites’ from Webs inner join Sites on Sites.Id = Webs.SiteId group by SiteId

Webs Database stores the informations on Web Sites.
Sites Database stores the informations on Site Collections.