Unstructured and Semi-Structured Data
After reading through the previous chapters, you should have a good foundation of SharePoint Portal Server. It is based on the Web Storage System, which was introduced in Exchange 2000 Server. It is a storage mechanism for storing unstructured data such as word documents and PDF files, and storing semi-structured data like email. By now, you have also learned about the capabilities of SharePoint and how it provides solutions based on the Web Storage System.
Email is considered semi-structured because it has some fields that will always appear in any email, such as FROM, TO, CC, and SUBJECT, which represent structured fields, and a BODY that mainly is in free format without any specific structure. The structured ...
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