List Item Threshold and Column Limit

Question

Is there any way by which I can increase or decrease the item threshold for a particular list?

And can anyone tell me the threshold values for below :-

1. Items in a list.
2. Total number of columns in a list.
3. Number of sites in a site-collection.
4. Number of site-collection in a web-application.

Answer 1

Boundaries for List:

File Size: 2GB per item.

Document Count: A flat count of 30,000,000 items per library.

Item Count: This is also limited to 30,000,000 items per list.

List View Threshold: 5,000 items per view.

Column Threshold:

**

For Site Collection Threshold:Recommended number of site collections per farm is 500,000 Personal Sites plus 250,000 for all other site templates

** For Site: The maximum recommended number of sites and subsites is 250,000 sites.

You can disable throttling at list level but this isn't optimal as you'll see performance issues when sending unoptimized queries to the list.

Please follow this link for avoiding such situations

http://www.abelsolutions.com/2013-blog/working-with-list-view-thresholds-in-sharepoint/

http://en.share-gate.com/blog/demystifying-the-sharepoint-lists-thresholds

Answer 2

in online version no. in server version yes.

it should not be done as it isn't supported by Microsoft and it will degrade performance of server version.