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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

Using built-in array functions

The previous query made sure that it only processes each videogame document that has a level property defined at the root level and its value is an array. However, it is possible to have a new videogame document that declares an empty array ([]) as the value for the level property because the video game doesn't have defined levels yet.

The next query is a new version of the previous query that takes advantage of the ARRAY_LENGTH built-in function. This function returns the number of elements of the array expression received as an argument. The query makes sure that the level property is an array and that it contains at least one element. The results for the query will be the same that were shown for its previous version. The code file for the sample is included in the learning_cosmos_db_03_01 folder in the sql_queries/videogame_1_07...

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