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Azure Search #2–Creating Search Service

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  Let’s see how we can create a azure search service and how we can manage and scale it. Step 1: Select Search service from add new Log in to Azure portal Click New –> Web & Mobile Under that select Azure Search . Step 2: Give a name & select pricing tier after selecting the Azure Search you will get the following blade. enter the name you need to use for the search service. then you have to select the pricing tier, by clicking on Pricing tier option in the blade. when selecting pricing tier you need to identify your application requirements and select it. Anyway it is always better you start with a lower tier and scale it up when the application need varies. Azure provides you the facility of scaling up or down the tier based on you need. Then click create search service will be created for you. Pricing Tiers mainly contains 3 categories. 1.Free multi-tenant shared service 2.Basic provides dedicated computing resources for production workloads at a sm

Azure Search #3 - Azure Search Index

  When you want to have Azure Search integrated with your application data first thing you have to do is creating a Azure Search index under your search service. One Search service can contain multiple indexes. An index is a persistent store of documents and other constructs used by an Azure Search service. A document is a single unit searchable data in your index. Index is like a table in SQL database. But there are some differences. When creating a index a given data field has set of attributes and a field type. Lets first look at what are the possible data types we can store in Azure search index.   Type Description Edm.String Text that can optionally be tokenized for full-text search Collection(Edm.String) A list of strings that can optionally be tokenized for full-text search Edm.Boolean Contains true/false values Edm.Int32 32-bit integer values Edm.Int64 64-bit integer values Edm.Double Double-precision numeric data Edm.DateTimeOffset Date