Move Site Collection to Another Content Database using PowerShell

Requirement: Found a SharePoint Site collection growing in size over a period of time and wanted to move the SharePoint 2013 site collection to another content database.

Solution: Use the PowerShell Cmdlet Move-SPSite to move site collection from one content database to another. Here is how: First, Identify the target content database to move your site collection. You can create new content database with New-SPContentDatabase cmdlet. Next, Run Move-SPSite cmdlet with site collection URL and database name parameters.

Syntax:

Move-SPSite <Site-Collection-URL> –DestinationDatabase "<Database-Name>"

Example:

Move-SPSite "http://intranet.crescent.com/sites/ops" –DestinationDatabase "SP13_Intranet_Content08"

Here is our script in action:

Here is an alternate approach: Move SharePoint Site Collections between Content Databases