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Announcing the New Azure Cosmos DB Desktop Data Migration Tool

March 23, 2023 Mar 23, 2023 03/23/23
Mark Brown
Today we're excited to introduce a brand new Azure Cosmos DB Desktop Data Migration Tool. You can find the new tool at https://github.com/AzureCosmosDB/data-migration-desktop-tool. Read more about it below and how to use it.   Some History The old Data Migration Tool (or DMT as it was known) was originally created in 2015 and had ...

Build Intelligent Applications using ChatGPT & Azure Cosmos DB

March 22, 2023 Mar 22, 2023 03/22/23
authorsMark Brown, Sandeep S. Nair
"Cosmos DB is the go-to database powering the world’s most demanding workloads at any scale. OpenAI relies on Cosmos DB to dynamically scale their ChatGPT service – one of the fastest-growing consumer apps ever – enabling high reliability and low maintenance." - Satya Nadella, Microsoft chairman and chief executive officer As...

Announcing Data API builder for Azure Cosmos DB

March 15, 2023 Mar 15, 2023 03/15/23
Sajeetharan Sinnathurai
We are super excited to announce the public preview of Data API builder. A new feature that allows customers to instantly and securely build a GraphQL API for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL and Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL.   A quick look at Data API Builder  With Data API Builder, database objects can be exposed via REST or GraphQL ...

Enabling real-time dashboards: Power BI DirectQuery mode and Dataflows support in Azure Cosmos DB

March 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023 03/14/23
authorsRodrigo Souza, Revin Chalil
The Azure Cosmos DB V2 Connector for Power BI, with support for querying the Azure Cosmos DB transactional store in both DirectQuery and Import modes, is now in preview. The new V2 connector also supports Azure Cosmos DB as a data source in Power BI dataflows. It’s available now on Power BI components including Desktop, Power BI service, ...

Save the Date for Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2023!

March 1, 2023 Mar 1, 2023 03/1/23
Ricky Diep
  Overview  Save the date and get ready for Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2023! Azure Cosmos DB Conf is a FREE virtual developer event happening on March 28th, 2023, organized by Microsoft with support from the greater Azure Cosmos DB community. During the event, you'll learn about the latest innovations in Azure Cosmos DB, a fully ...

Performance Improvements in Azure Cosmos DB Kafka Connector

January 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023 01/24/23
authorsRicky Diep, Marcelo Fonseca, Sergiy Smyrnov
Overview Azure Cosmos DB Kafka connector had been updated recently and several new features were delivered as part of the v1.6.0 release based on the feedback and requirements of several customers implementing it as part of their application modernization journey. In this blog post – I will share details about those improvements and ...

Azure Cosmos DB & Power BI Incremental Refresh

January 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023 01/24/23
authorsAlp Kaya, John Dohoney
Abstract Data Collection has become a daunting task with the ever-growing amount of data.  The growth of data makes reporting tasks an operational challenge due to the processing time requirements imposed by technical limitations in many business intelligence tools. The paper outlines the incremental refresh capability of Microsoft’s Power...

NoSQL vs. relational: Which database should you use for your app?

January 17, 2023 Jan 17, 2023 01/17/23
Michal Toiba
Microsoft recently announced the introduction of Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, a distributed relational database, making Azure the first cloud platform to offer support for both relational and NoSQL (non-relational) data in a single database service. This means Azure Cosmos DB developers now have ultimate flexibility when building cloud-...

Building and deploying Java apps with Spring Cloud and Azure Cosmos DB

January 12, 2023 Jan 12, 2023 01/12/23
Rory Preddy
On a recent episode of Azure Cosmos DB Live TV, I discussed building Java apps with Azure Cosmos DB and Spring Cloud. The focus of the discussion was how to use Spring Cloud Azure, an open-source project that provides seamless Spring integration with Azure services and gives developers a Spring-idiomatic way to connect and consume Azure ...