Video description
This video introduces Cosmos DB and highlights the benefits that using Cosmos DB can bring to your applications and clients. Watching this video helps to increase your toolbox of knowledge around Azure and build your skills on this important cloud platform. Examples in the video are built in C#, the language from which Cosmos DB is most commonly used. A running example throughout the video demonstrates the basics of entering data, querying and updating data, deleting data, and working with the Cosmos DB change feed.
What You Will Learn
- Understand Cosmos DB and when it should be used
- Become familiar with the different APIs that are available
- Create a new service in Azure in support of a Cosmos DB database
- Develop applications locally using C# and the Table API
- Create a database and add data to it
- Query, update, and delete data as needed
- React to events and streaming data with the change feed
Who This Video Is For
Developers with knowledge of C#, but who have not used Cosmos DB before and who would like to know more about it and the scenarios in which Cosmos DB is useful. For developers who have come from a relational database background and want to understand how Cosmos DB can be used differently from the relational databases to which they are accustomed.
Table of contents
- Introduction 00:02:41
- What is Cosmos DB and Why would you use it? 00:05:40
- The different APIs that are available 00:04:35
- Creating a New Service in Azure 00:05:30
- Developing Locally with C# and the SQL API 00:06:02
- Creating a Database 00:03:43
- Adding Some Data 00:07:39
- Querying That Data 00:06:58
- Complex Queries with OData 00:03:42
- Updating and Deleting 00:03:08
- Using the Change Feed 00:04:47
- Cost of Using Cosmos DB 00:05:37
- Summary and Next Steps 00:02:42
Product information
- Title: Getting Started with Microsoft Cosmos DB Using C#: Cloud Database Support for .NET Applications
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2020
- Publisher(s): Apress
- ISBN: 9781484260203
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