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Intra-account container copy jobs for Core (SQL) and Cassandra API accounts (Preview)

August 30, 2022 Aug 30, 2022 08/30/22
Shweta Nayak
Announcing the preview for Intra-account container copy jobs. This functionality helps create offline copies of containers for Azure Cosmos DB for both Core (SQL) API and Cassandra API using Azure CLI. When to use The container copy feature for Azure Cosmos DB is helpful for the following scenarios: Steps to use ...

Explore Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra’s new features

July 28, 2022 Jul 28, 2022 07/28/22
Theo van Kraay
At Microsoft Ignite last November, we announced the general availability of Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, an Azure service that hosts open-source Apache Cassandra clusters, with automated deployment, scaling, and management operations all built into the service. In this blog, we give a quick recap of what this service has to ...

Introducing a new system function and optimized query operators

June 21, 2022 Jun 21, 2022 06/21/22
Justine Cocchi
The query engine in Azure Cosmos DB Core (SQL) API now has a new system function and optimizations for a set of query operations to better use the index. In this post we’ll cover the new DateTimeBin function as well as improvements to GROUP BY, DISTINCT, OFFSET LIMIT, and JOIN. These example scenarios are for Contoso, a fictional online ...

Azure Cosmos DB at Microsoft Build 2022 Review – Episode 45

June 13, 2022 Jun 13, 2022 06/13/22
authorsJay Gordon, Mark Brown
Welcome back!  We hope you enjoyed all the content and updates from the 2022 edition of Microsoft Build. Developers were able to watch and virtually attend over 500 different live sessions covering topics ranging from Java, Kubernetes, and Azure Cosmos DB, and more! Check out the video below for the full recap on the new and exciting features...

Announced at Microsoft Build: New features for scalable, cost-effective application development

May 24, 2022 May 24, 2022 05/24/22
Nikisha Reyes-Grange
Microsoft Build starts today and features exciting announcements about Azure Cosmos DB, along with demonstrations of new features and interactive sessions with members of our product team. We hope you’re able to join us live or on-demand. New features for developers to build and deploy scalable applications Azure Cosmos DB has been the ...

Join Us! Azure Cosmos DB at Microsoft Build 2022

May 13, 2022 May 13, 2022 05/13/22
Ricky Diep
Find out what's new in the world of Azure Cosmos DB directly from our team at Microsoft Build 2022. We will be introducing new features that enable developers to build scalable, cost-effective cloud-native applications with ease. Join senior leadership, program managers, and engineers for live sessions, roundtable discussions, and much ...

Register now for Azure Cosmos DB Conf on April 19 – 20

April 6, 2022 Apr 6, 2022 04/6/22
Mark Brown
Azure Cosmos DB Conf, our free, virtual developer event, returns April 19-20.  The event will include three, 3-hour live streams in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Australia, and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Each live stream will feature its own unique, region-specific content that will be created and delivered by local members of the ...