Azure Cosmos DB – Matt Ruma

Adventures with Cosmos: Delete All Documents

Posted on April 2, 2021April 2, 2021 by Matt Ruma

When testing my Cosmos database I often like to reset the containers, or in other words, delete all the existing documents. Unfortunately, there is no way to do a DELETE * FROM in Cosmos, at least not yet. I know I could create a Console Application or Azure Function to do this, but I was…

Adventures in CosmosDB: New Date and Time System Functions

Posted on October 5, 2020October 5, 2020 by Matt Ruma

Been a little while since I last posted, but wanted to share with you a link to some exciting new features in CosmosDB around Date and Time System Functions. Enjoy!

Adventures in Azure: Curbside Pickup Sample App

Posted on May 19, 2020May 29, 2020 by Matt Ruma

With all that is going on with COVID-19 and the impact that it is having on retailers, I took a couple of days and wrote a curb-side app that would allow customers to notify a retailer, or any vendor for that matter, that they had arrived to pick-up their order. Please note, this is an…

Adventures with Cosmos: Get Primary Connection String with PowerShell

Posted on April 22, 2020April 22, 2020 by Matt Ruma

When it comes to deploying my infrastructure to Azure I prefer an imperative approach over a declarative approach so I starting to work a lot with Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell. That being said, I am working on an Web App which will be deployed to an App Service in Azure. When I deploy the…

Adventures with Azure Cosmos DB: Limit Query RUs

Posted on March 11, 2020March 11, 2020 by Matt Ruma

If you have worked any with Azure Cosmos DB you are well aware of Request Units, or RUs. What exactly are RUs and how do they work? The cost of all database operations is normalized by Azure Cosmos DB and is expressed by Request Units (or RUs, for short). You can think of RUs per second as…

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