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Native Mongo shell on Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB now in preview

March 19, 2020 Mar 19, 2020 03/19/20
Luis Bosquez
We are happy to announce the preview release for native Mongo shell v3.6.8 on the Data Explorer for Azure Cosmos DB’s API for MongoDB! This will provide you with the native Mongo shell capabilities for database management and CRUD operations. This is available in your Data Explorer either in the Azure Portal or in its stand-alone version...

Azure Private Link for Azure Cosmos DB now generally available

March 14, 2020 Mar 14, 2020 03/14/20
Thomas Weiss
We are thrilled to announce the general availability of Azure Private Link for Azure Cosmos DB, making Azure Cosmos DB the next Azure service compatible with Azure Private Link. What is Azure Private Link Azure Private Link provides private connectivity from a virtual network to Azure platform as a service (PaaS) services. It simplifies the ...

Migrating Relational Data into Azure Cosmos DB using Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks

March 5, 2020 Mar 5, 2020 03/5/20
Tonio Lora
Organizations migrating relational data to Azure Cosmos DB meet different challenges, from moving large amounts of data, to performing the transformations required to properly store the data in a format that will provide the performance required. The first step on this type of migrations is to come up with the non-relational model that will ...