Episode 185: DocumentDB Updates with Ryan CrawCour

In this episode Chris Risner and Haishi Bai are joined by Ryan CrawCour, Sr Program Manager working on Azure DocumentDB.  Ryan joins us to give us an update on what DocumentDB's been doing since he was last on Cloud Cover.  Ryan begins by giving a brief overview of what DocumentDB is and why it's important.  Next he launches into the new features DocumentDB has released since it went GA in April.  Some of those new features include: ID based routing, range operations for strings, Order By for queries, index transforms, query enhancements (In, Between, etc), portal updates, a new data migration tool, logical charging, and geospatial support.

Links from the show:

• [02:00] - Ryan's presentation
• [07:15] - Talking about the differences between NoSQL and SQL
• [15:50] - New features of DocumentDB
• [24:15] - Demos
• [47:40] - Further resources and feedback
• DocumentDB on Cloud Cover last time
• DocumentDB UserVoice
• DocumentDB SDKs
• DocumentDB Studio
• DocumentDB Playground
• DocumentDB Starter
• DocumentDB Import tool
• DocumentDB Query Cheat Sheet
• In the news: Boot Diagnostics for Azure VMs
• In the news: Azure Resource Manager SDKs Preview
• In the news; Mandatory updates for Azure Backup Agent
• In the news: Great new SQL database Capabilities in Azure

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