Managing Databases and Collections with DocumentDB Studio

I released the first Beta version of DocumentDB Studio.

DocumentDB Studio is to Azure DocumentDB what SQL Management Studio is to SQL Server and SQL Azure: a one-stop shop to manage and interact with your DocumentDB.

I posted an installation guide of the application (very simple)....

Installing DocumentDB Studio

As I announced yesterday, I released the first Beta version of DocumentDB Studio.

DocumentDB Studio is to Azure DocumentDB what SQL Management Studio is to SQL Server and SQL Azure: a one-stop shop to manage and interact with your DocumentDB.

In this blog post I'll simply walk you through the installation process.

Creating an Azure DocumentDB account

In this post I will guide you on how to create an Azure DocumentDB account.

If you remember the Azure DocumentDB resource model, the entire resource model is rooted at the Database account:

So, step by step:

1. Go to the preview portal: https://portal.azure.com/
2. Click the NEW button at the bottom...

DocumentDB Studio first (beta) release

I finally done a first release of my latest project, DocumentDB Studio!

DocumentDB Studio is to Azure DocumentDB what SQL Management Studio is to SQL Server and SQL Azure: a one-stop shop to manage and interact with your DocumentDB.

The first release is quite minimalist and only let you:

• Connect to...

Profile of MSN Health and Fitness on Azure DocumentDB

We already know that Azure DocumentDB was used in the back-end of OneNote. Last week Microsoft released another nice case study: the user profiles for MSN portal.

The requirements for the solution were:

1. Scale requirements to support +425M unique MSN users with +100M direct authenticated users. Initial capacity requirements for 20TB of document storage.
2. Under 15ms...