SharePoint : Site Collection
A site collection is a group of sites that are related. These sites have the same owner and administration settings. Site collections have a hierarchy; there's always at least one top-level site in a site collection, with sub-sites underneath.
Characteristics of a site collection:
- Every Web application contains at least one site collection (but can have many).
- Each Site collection has exactly 1 ‘Top Level Site’.
- The Site Collection doesn’t actually contain anything itself - that is down to the Top Level Site.
- This is the level that things like the Recycle bin and Quotas are organised at.
- Each site collection can only use a single content database (though multiple site collections can us the same content database) – this has major design implications as there are maximum recommended sizes for a content database.
See Also
References
- SharePoint Terminology – Farms, Web Front Ends, Web Application and Sites
- A Beginner's Guide to SharePoint Terminology - Part 1
