The document provides notes from a webinar on Azure Search, detailing audio issues, a Q&A session, and how to access the session recording. It outlines Azure Search as a managed service for mobile and web app development, highlighting its advantages such as quick setup, scalability, and the ability to connect search results to business goals. Additionally, it explains the process of creating and populating an index, along with the use of indexers to connect data sources with searchable content.

1. Azure Search
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2. Session Speaker
Abhishek Chandra
Sr. Consultant
WinWire Technologies

3. Agenda
Demo
Create and populate Index
Benefits
What is Azure Search
Questions
1
2
3
4
5

4. Scenarios
If an app offers lot of content your, users will be more effective
searching instead of browsing
Line of business applicationsSocial contentE-Commerce

5. Search Relevance
Simple
Natural
Don’t require training for users
Helps users to drill the right set of data
Expected

6. Why build own search engine?
Control
Define what’s the
right data scope for
searchable data
Align with business

7. Azure Search
Azure search is a fully managed search service for mobile
and web app development. It offers the experience user
expects and the features developer require.

8. Advantages
1 Cloud search service for web and
mobile app development
2 Get your search indices up and
running quickly
3
Easily scale up and down as needed
4 Connect search results to business goals
with great control over search ranking
5 Load and update automatically with
integrated indexers
6 Easily add geo-spatial search to your
app

9. Create an Azure Search service

10. How does Azure search work ?

11. Index
What is an Index ?
Field types and attributes
in an Azure Search index

12. Creating an Index
Create a new Index
You can create a new index within an Azure Search service using an HTTP POST or
PUT request.
POST
POST
https://[servicename].search.windows.net/indexes?api-version=[api-version]
Content-Type: application/json
api-key: [admin key]
PUT
PUT
https://[servicename].search.windows.net/indexes/[index name]?api-version=[api-
version]

13. Populating an Index
Push data to an index Pull data into an index

14. Populating an Index – using Indexer
Data_Source Indexer Target Index
An indexer is a resource that
connects data sources with target
search indexes
Indexer
A data source specifies what data
needs to be indexed at connects
data sources with target search
indexes.
Data Source

15. Populating an Index - Azure Search Service REST API
● POST /indexes/[index name]/docs/index?api-version=[api-version]
● Request Body
{ "value": [
{
"@search.action": "upload (default) | merge | mergeOrUpload | delete",
"key_field_name": "unique_key_of_document", (key/value pair for key field from index schema)
"field_name": field_value (key/value pairs matching index schema)
...
}, ...
]}
● Response
Status code: 200 OK
Status code: 207

16. Issuing searches

17. Demo

18. Q & A
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