Microsoft added geospatial support, which lets you store location data in your documents and perform spatial calculations for distance and intersections between points and polygons. Spatial data describes the position and…
By default, DocumentDB automatically indexes every property in a document as soon as the document is added to the database. However, you can take control and fine tune your own…
Microsoft Azure DocumentDB supports querying documents using SQL over JSON documents. You can sort documents in the collection on numbers and strings using an ORDER BY clause in your query.…
Microsoft has recently added a number of improvements on how you can query Azure DocumentDB, such as the TOP keyword to SQL grammar, which made queries run faster and consume…
JSON or JavaScript Object Notation is a lightweight text-based open standard designed for human-readable data interchange and also easy for machines to parse and generate. JSON is at the heart…
While schema-free databases, like DocumentDB, make it super easy to embrace changes to your data model, you should still spend some time thinking about your data. You have a lot…
In this chapter, we will learn how to delete a document from your DocumentDB account. Using Azure Portal, you can easily delete any document by opening the document in Document…
In this chapter, we will learn how to update the documents. Using Azure portal, you can easily update document by opening the document in Document explorer and updating it in…
In DocumentDB, we actually use SQL to query for documents, so this chapter is all about querying using the special SQL syntax in DocumentDB. Although if you are doing .NET…
In this chapter, we will get to work with actual documents in a collection. You can create documents using either Azure portal or .Net SDK. Creating Documents with the Azure…