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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 – customizing the columns


You will customize the Documents screen and choose columns to display.

  1. In the Management Studio's Databases screen, select the Sales database (created in Chapter 1, Getting Started with RavenDB) and activate it as the current database.

  2. Click on the Documents tab to display the Documents screen.

  3. Use the Switch between views button to select the Details view mode.

  4. Right-click on any column header to display the contextual menu and click on Choose Columns.

  5. In the Choose Columns window, select Custom.

  6. Use Move Selected Column (up or down) to move the AlbumArtUrl column to be the latest column.

  7. Double-click on the [New-Column] to add a new column.

  8. Enter Artist.Name in the Binding column and Artist Name in the Title column.

    Note

    Note that while typing, suggestions are displayed.

  9. Use Move Selected Column to move up the Artist Name column to be the third column.

  10. Click on the OK button to apply changes and return to the Documents screen.

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