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RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide

By : Khaled Tannir
Book Image

RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide

By: Khaled Tannir

Overview of this book

RavenDB is a second generation document database written in .NET, offering a flexible data model designed to address requirements coming from real-world systems. It is different from the other document databases around, as with RavenDB you can get up and running in a few minutes, and that includes grasping all the basics. It allows you to build high-performance, low-latency applications with ease and efficiency.RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide introduces RavenDB concepts and teaches you everything, right from installing RavenDB, to creating documents, and querying indexes. This book will help you take advantage of powerful, document-oriented NoSQL databases and build a solid foundation on which you can create your .NET applications. This book presents RavenDB, the .NET document-oriented NoSQL database, through a series of clear and practical exercises that will help you to take advantage of this database server. The book starts off with an introduction to RavenDB and its Management Studio. You will then move ahead and learn how to quickly and efficiently build high performance, NoSQL document-oriented .NET applications using the .NET client API or the HTTP REST API. Next, Dynamic and static indexes that use map/reduce to process datasets are covered. You will then see how to create and query these indexes, with the help of detailed examples. You will also learn how to deploy your RavenDB server in a production environment and how to optimize and secure it.With numerous practical examples, RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide teaches you everything you need to know for building high performance .NET document-oriented NoSQL databases.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – loading a document


You will use the Management Studio to load a document from the Orders database to view it and modify some values.

  1. Select the Orders database from the Databases screen to activate it and make it the current database.

  2. Select the Documents tab screen to display the documents list.

  3. Click on the Switch between views button and select the ID Only view mode.

  4. Select the document with the ID = Orders/B765760 and click on the pencil icon in the bottom-right corner to open the document in the edit screen.

    Tip

    In the Details view mode, you might double-click on the row that represents the document to open it in the edit screen mode.

  5. Change the Units field value to be 20.

  6. Click on the Save button to make the changes permanent.

What just happened?

We learned how to load the document with the ID Orders/B765760 from the Orders database in the edit screen mode and change its Units value directly in the Management Studio.

In steps 1 to 3, we used the pencil icon to open the document...