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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 – modifying a document


You will explore and learn to modify a document displayed within the Management Studio's Collections screen.

  1. In the Management Studio, select the Collections tab to display the Collections screen.

    In the Collections screen section, we can see that we have one collection named Orders which contains five documents.

    Under the Documents screen section, we see all documents related to the Orders collection which is the active selection in the Collections section.

  2. Choose the ID Only view mode to display only the ID of each document in the Documents screen section. (The Switch between views button is located on the top-right corner of the Documents screen section).

    Note

    There are six different view modes we can switch between: Details, ID Only, Small Card, Medium Card, Large Card, and Extra Large Card.

  3. Select the document with the ID = Orders/B768920 from the Documents screen section and click on the pencil icon on the bottom-right corner to open it in the edit...