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You cannot delete certain site collections in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0Article ID: 968787 - View products that this article applies to. SYMPTOMSConsider the following scenario. You have a content database
that contains a site collection at a certain URL path. You want to attach that
content database to a Web application. If the Web application already contains
another site collection at the same URL path, the content database will be
successfully attached. However, the site collection in that content database
will be inaccessible. Therefore, you cannot delete it to reclaim space in your
content database. CAUSEMultiple site collections in a Web application cannot share
the same URL path. Therefore, SharePoint is aware of only the first site
collection that is registered in the SharePoint site map. All other site
collections that use the same URL path cannot be registered in the site map and
are considered orphans. WORKAROUNDThe data in the orphaned site collection still exists, even
though it is inaccessible. You can detach the content database from the current
Web application and then attach it to another Web application that does not
have a site collection registered at that URL path. The site collection will
then be available. RESOLUTIONWindows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
provides new commands and parameters to locate orphaned site collections and
sites and to delete them from your content database without having to use the
workaround. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 953338
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953338/
)
Description of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 and
of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack Service Pack 2
MORE INFORMATIONThe stsadm -o enumallwebs command will list all site collections in a content database and
whether they are registered in the SharePoint site map. The stsadm -o deletesite and stsadm -o deleteweb commands now support a -force parameter that lets you delete site collections and sites, based
on their IDs, that are not registered in the SharePoint site map. For more information about these commands, see the following articles in TechNet: deletesite deleteweb enumallwebs PropertiesArticle ID: 968787 - Last Review: October 9, 2011 - Revision: 2.0
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