Learn Azure Search

1. Azure Search

3. Azure Search
• Search-as-a-Service
• REST API or .NET SDK
• Difference between search engines VS Azure Search.
• https://www.google.com/insidesearch/howsearchworks/thestory/

4. Azure Search
• Powerful Queries
• Logical Operators
• Phrase Search
• Suffix and Precedence operators
• Fuzzy search
• Phonetic matching
• Language Support
• 56 different languages
• Verb tenses
• Gender
• Irregular plural nouns (mouse vs mice)
• Search Suggestions

5. Azure Search
• Hit Highlighting
• Facet navigation
• Geo-spatial
• Filters

6. Sample Search
• https://searchsamples.azurewebsites.net/
• http://aka.ms/azjobsdemo

7. Azure Search
• Query Analyzer
• Lucene query syntax or Query parser
• Simple query syntax

8. Azure Search
• Lucene Query Parser
• Field-scoped queries – artists: David, artists: “David” AND “Robert”
• Fuzzy Search – tilde ~ symbol with value 0 to 2. blue~ or blue~1
• Proximity Search – find terms that are near each other. Insert ~. “Hotel
airport”~5
• Term boosting
• Regular expression search – motel or hotel, specify /[mh]otel/
• Wildcard search – single (?) or multiple (*)
• Syntax fundamentals - + - && || ! ( ) { } [ ] ^ " ~ * ? : /
• Boolean operators – AND, OR, NOT

9. Azure Search
• Simple query syntax
• Operators - +, |, -. *, “, ()
• Wifi+luxury - AND
• Wifi|luxury - OR
• Wifi-luxury - NOT
• Guidance for using search operators – wi-fi -- “wi-fi”

10. Search Traffic Analytics
• Visibility
• Insights
• insights-logs-operationlogs: search traffic logs
• insights-metrics-pt1m: aggregated metrics

11. Service Limits
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/search-limits-quotas-capacity/

12. Capacity Planning
• Search Units
• Basic – 3 SU
• Standard – 36 SU
• Partitions
• Replicas
• SU= R * P

13. Capacity Planning

14. Demo
Azure Search