Importing Data to DocumentDB Just Keeps Getting Better

The Azure DocumentDB Data Migration Tool is an open source solution that imports data to DocumentDB, Azure’s NoSQL document database service.  The latest release of the tool opens up not only additional import sources, but also the ability to apply an indexing policy to DocumentDB collections during import.  Specifically, we’ve added support for: Azure Blob storage Amazon… Read More

New DocumentDB ORDER BY Features in the Azure Preview Portal

It’s always been easy to create DocumentDB collections in the Azure preview portal.  With the release of ORDER BY support for Azure DocumentDB, we’ve updated our portal experience to make it just as easy to specify the indexing policy for your collections.  When creating a collection, you can now choose to apply one of three indexing policies:… Read More

Querying and Editing DocumentDB Data Just Got Better

We’ve released a set of enhancements to improve your experience and efficiency working with DocumentDB queries, documents, and server-side programming in the Azure preview portal, including: Query Explorer Improvements Document Explorer Improvements An all new Script Explorer   Keep reading for additional details on these new and updated features. Query Explorer Improvements You can now… Read More

Importing Data to DocumentDB Just Got Faster and Easier

The Azure DocumentDB Data Migration Tool is an open source solution that imports data to DocumentDB, Azure’s NoSQL document database service.  With the latest release of the tool, you can now ingest large volumes of data from a variety of sources even faster by partitioning the data across multiple collections during import. We’ve also enhanced the… Read More

Import Sample Data to Azure DocumentDB

We’re always looking for ways to make it even easier to get started with DocumentDB.  You likely already know about our great Query Playground which lets you quickly learn and try out DocumentDB’s rich querying capabilities for yourself: Hopefully, you also know about our Data Migration Tool, which lets you quickly and easily import data… Read More

A taste of DocumentDB through our Query Playground

Have you heard about Microsoft’s newest NoSQL database service, DocumentDB? DocumentDB is a document oriented database service that supports a familiar SQL syntax for queries over schema-free JSON data. Want to give it a try? Visit the Query Playground to try out DocumentDB’s rich querying capabilities for yourself. Complete each activity and learn about DocumentDB’s query… Read More

New DocumentDB SQL Keywords, Operators and Functions

We’re pleased to announce some enhancements to the DocumentDB SQL grammar, including new keywords, operators and functions. The latest service update includes support for the IN and BETWEEN keywords, the ternary (?), coalescing (??), and bitwise shift operators, and a number of built-in functions. Newly added keywords and operators: New Keywords IN and BETWEEN New… Read More

Come meet the Azure DocumentDB team at Ignite, May 4–8th

Exciting news! Microsoft Azure DocumentDB is hosting two great sessions at this year’s Ignite Conference in Chicago, IL. Come and join our sessions to learn about Azure’s newest NoSQL database service. Read more about both of our sessions below. SELECT Latest FROM Microsoft Azure DocumentDB – Tuesday, May 5th from 3:15pm – 4:30pm CT Get hands… Read More