Moving Site Collections Between Content Databases
There might be some situations when a site collection hosted within a content database is unexpectedly growing, and the database is approaching the 100GB limit recommended by Microsoft. At such times, administrators should manually move the growing site collections from the larger content database to another smaller one.
Determining the Size of the Source Site Collection Using Windows PowerShell
Administrators should always double-check that the destination hard disk can comfortably store the site collection data by determining the size of the site collection that is to be moved. The following procedure can be used to determine the size of a site collection:
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