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How to know where a Service is Available in Azure
Solution ·Azure has a Global Footprint of 40 regions at the time of this writing (mid-September 2017).
Not all services are available in every regions. Most aren’t in fact. Only foundational services (e.g. storage) are available everywhere.
In order to know where a service is available, we...
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Hacking: changing Cosmos DB Portal experience from Graph to SQL
Solution ·In the last article, we looked at how we could access a graph using the SQL (aka DocumentDB) API.
Here we’ll explore how we can switch the Portal experience from one to the other.
Portal Experience
The Portal Experience refers to the way the portal lets us interact with Cosmos DB Data. It’s basically the Data Explorer experience.
Here...
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Hacking: accessing a graph in Cosmos DB with SQL / DocumentDB API
Solution ·Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed multi-model database service.
At this point in time (August 2017) there are four supported models: DocumentDB (also named SQL because the query language is similar to T-SQL), MongoDB, Tabular & Gremlin.
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Cosmos DB Async Querying & Streaming
Solution ·I wrote an article back in January 2015 about async querying Azure DocumentDB using the .NET SDK.
The service was still in preview back then.
Since then DocumentDB has been superseded by Azure Cosmos DB and the SDK has changed a bit so I thought I would...
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Cosmos DB & Graph with Gremlin - Getting Started
Solution ·Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed multi-model database service.
One of the paradigm it supports is Graph: Cosmos DB can be used to store and query graphs.
At the time of this writing, it supports one interface, Gremlin, which is part of the Apache...