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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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Daron Yöndem Daron Yöndem
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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

Understanding the requirements for the first version of an application


So far, we have been working with different web-based and GUI tools to interact with the Cosmos DB service and a document database with the SQL API. We have been using a single partition and the default indexing options. Now we will leverage our existing Cosmos DB knowledge to perform the different operations we learned with the Cosmos DB .NET Core SDK. In addition, we will work with a partition key and customized indexing options.

First, we will create an application that will work with dynamic documents without any schema by taking advantage of the dynamic keyword to create dynamic objects. The use of this keyword is one of a few possible approaches to interacting with Cosmos DB JSON documents in .NET Core and C#. The clear advantage of this approach is that we don't need to create a class that represents the documents just to perform a few operations with a collection. We will look at many common scenarios with the...

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