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Learning Azure DocumentDB

By : Riccardo Becker
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Learning Azure DocumentDB

By: Riccardo Becker

Overview of this book

Learning DocumentDB adopts a practical, step-by-step approach to help you learn the basics of DocumentDB and use your new-found abilities in real-life scenarios and enterprise solutions. We start with the absolute basics, such as setting up a DocumentDB environment, and guide you through managing your databases, and executing simple and complex queries. Next, we explain how to work with DocumentDB using the open REST protocol, and demonstrate how JavaScript works with DocumentDB. We’ll also show you how to authenticate and execute queries. Moving on, you’ll find out how to use DocumentDB from within Node.js to kick-start your Node.js projects. Next, you’ll discover how to increase the performance of your DocumentDB database and fine-tune it. Finally, you’ll get to grips with using DocumentDB in conjunction with other services offered from the Microsoft Azure platform.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning Azure DocumentDB
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 3. Basic Querying

This chapter will guide you through the processes of creating, reading, updating, and deleting resources in your database (CRUD operations). We will focus on collections, documents, and users. Each section will discuss how to achieve these CRUD operations on the different resource types, with real code examples.

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Concepts of CRUD operations inside DocumentDB

  • Different operations on collections, users, and documents

  • Building a C# program that demonstrates and explains the CRUD operations