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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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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

Creating a new collection


Now we will create a new collection for the database.

  1. Hover on the database name (Competition) and click on the ellipses at the right-hand side (...) to display a context menu, as shown in the next screenshot:
  1. Click on New Collection in the context menu. The Add Collection panel will appear.
  2. Enter VideoGames1 in Collection Id.
  3. Select Fixed (10 GB) in Storage capacity. This way, the maximum storage size for the collection will be 10 GB. In this case, we won't configure a partition key.
  4. Enter 1000 in Throughput (400 - 10,000 RU/s). This way, Azure will provision 1,000 request units per second for this collection. Note that based on the value we enter, the portal displays the estimated spend below this field.
  5. Click + Add unique key and a new textbox will be added below Unique keys. Enter /name in this textbox to specify that we want the name value to be unique per partition key. In this case, there is only one partition, and therefore, the data integrity layer will make...
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Guide to NoSQL with Azure Cosmos DB
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