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Guide to NoSQL with Azure Cosmos DB

You're reading from   Guide to NoSQL with Azure Cosmos DB Work with the massively scalable Azure database service with JSON, C#, LINQ, and .NET Core 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789612899
Length 214 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to NoSQL in Cosmos DB 2. Getting Started with Cosmos DB Development and NoSQL Document Databases FREE CHAPTER 3. Writing and Running Queries on NoSQL Document Databases 4. Building an Application with C#, Cosmos DB, a NoSQL Document Database, and the SQL API 5. Working with POCOs, LINQ, and a NoSQL Document Database 6. Tuning and Managing Scalability with Cosmos DB 7. Answers 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Populating a collection with documents


Now we will populate the recently created collection with a few documents that represent games that were part of eSports competitions with specific tags, definitions for their levels, and the high score achievements. We will continue working with the Azure web-based portal, but we will learn to use other tools to perform the same task in the following sections.

 

Create a new JSON file with the following contents in your favorite text editor and save it in a temporary folder as videogame1_01.json. The following lines show the code that defines the game with its tags, levels, and high score achievements. The code file for the sample is included in the learning_cosmos_db_02_01 folder in the videogames/videogame1_01.json file:

{ 
    "id": "1", 
    "name": "Battle Royale Kingdoms", 
    "lastCompetitionDate": "2018-09-29T04:36:22.7251173Z", 
    "tags": [ 
        "mobile", "2D", "card game" 
    ], 
    "levels": [ 
        { 
            "title": "Training...
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Guide to NoSQL with Azure Cosmos DB
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