MobileServiceClient's sync tables are doing great. However, I need to maintain a client-located, non-syncing table in the mobile/client app.
My google skills are failing me cos i keep getting the offline-sync table tutorial.
Anyone knows how to maintain a non-syncing table using MobileServiceClient?
Thanks
Same as a Sync table. The differences are:
Your table class does not include the Sync specifier
You don't need to PullAsync() any more since the query is executed against the backend.
Reference here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/app-service-mobile-dotnet-how-to-use-client-library/#instantiating
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I have an ADF pipeline which is iterating over a set of files, performing various operations and I have an Azure CosmosDB (SQL API) instance where I would like to insert the name of file and a timestamp, mainly to keep track on which files have been already processed and which not, but in the future I might want to add some other bits of data related to each file.
What I have is my CosmosDB
And currently I am trying to utilice the Copy Data Activity for the insert part.
One problem that I have is that this particular activity expects source while at this point I have only the filename. In theory it was an option to use the Blob Storage from where I read the file at the beginning, but since the Blob Storage is set to store binary files I got the following error if I try to use it as source
Because of that I created a dummy CosmosDB Linked service, but I have several issues with this approach:
Generally the idea for dummy source is not very appealing to me
I haven't find a lot of information on the topic but it seems that if I want to use something in the Sink I need to SELECT from the source
Even though I have selected a value for the id the item is not saved with the selected value from the Source query, but as you can see from the first screenshot I got a GUID and only the name is as I want it.
So my questions are two. I just learn ADF but this approach doesn't look like the proper way to insert item into CosmosDB from activity, so a better/more common approach would be appreciated. If there is not better proposal, how can I at least apply my own value for the id column? If I create the item in the CosmosDB GUI and save it from there, as you can see I am able to use the filename as id which for now seems like a good idea to me, but I wasn't able to add custom value (string or int) when I was trying through the activity, so how can I achieve this?
This is how my Sink looks like
In our project we created several useful queries on log analytics that we deploy as a "savedSearch" (Microsoft.OperationalInsights/workspaces/savedSearches#2020-08-01).
Now when we load the query in the editor we can export it to excel, which can be nicely refreshed to view current data.
However this link is created to the query that is in the editor and not the stored/deployed query. The alternative is to export to Power Bi (M query) which generates a script that you can then use in excel.
In both cases the query itself seems to be in the connection, so it does not get updated when we deploy a new version. Does anyone know of a way to make this connection to a stored/deployed query?
I feel like this should be as straightforward as a connection to resource so that not only the data, but also the query itself gets updated.... I must be missing something
One way I can think of is to leverage Functions in log queries.
You can first save your query as a function, then export it to excel that would create a connection but execute the function, instead of the raw query.
You can tweak your query later if needed and save/overwrite to the same function, and the refresh should still be able to pull in the latest results since the changes are now neatly abstracted away via the function. :)
I have a query like;
SELECT
*
INTO [documentdb]
FROM
[iothub]
TIMESTAMP BY eventenqueuedutctime
I need to use * because data is dynamic and dont have specific schema. Problem is Iothub system information data is written to documentdb in this query. Is there any way to exclude Iothub system information data?
Thanks.
This is not possible currently but this will be possible in Job Compatibility Level 1.2 in near future. For now, one workaround is that you could create a post create trigger in Cosmos DB to remove this property from the document.
To answer your question, Azure stream analytics service doesn't have an in-built support for excluding columns from dynamic data (iothub information). But, we can achieve this by using UDF. Here is more info on UDF.
UDF can help us in deleting the column from input data and returning us the updated json.
There are two steps basically to achieve this:
Create a JavaScript UDF.
Go to functions from left hand side navigation (below inputs).
Click on Add --> JavaScript UDF.
Give a function alias = removeiothubinfo
keep output type - any.
copy paste following code into function definition.
function main(input) {
delete input['IoTHub'];
return input;
}
Click on Save
Update query
Go to query mode and copy paste the following query :
WITH NewInput AS
(
SELECT
udf.removeiothubinfo(iothub) AS UpdatedJson
FROM
[iothub]
)
SELECT
UpdatedJson.*
INTO
[documentdb]
FROM
NewInput
Click on Save
I suggest you to test your query before running the job by uploading a sample file containing similar structure for json.
Edited
Also, even in job compatibility level 1.2 there has been no additional functionality to achieve this. Check this out for more info.
As #chetangm said in his answer, no such filtering mechanism is supported in ASA so far. Yes, you could use create trigger in Cosmos db, however it need to be triggered in sdk code or REST API. It won't be triggered automatically.
I provide you with another workaround that using Azure Function Cosmos DB Triggered. It could be executed when data is added to or changed in Azure Cosmos DB. You just need to remove the fields you don't want in the function code.
My question is pretty simple. I am working on Kentico 9 with its SQL Server database which contains several tables which had been added directly from the SQL Management Studio by an external contractor. The fact is that those tables are being used to store custom content which will be displayed for a site, but, in the code they don't have the code for making queries. I mean, they don't have Info and Provider classes.
https://docs.kentico.com/display/K82/Retrieving+database+data+using+ObjectQuery+API
According with this, all tables into the Kentico database can be accessed by invoking methods on these classes, but I don't have it this time.
Something like this, it will not work if I use my table name:
var user = UserInfoProvider.GetUserInfo("administrator");
var items = CustomTableItemProvider.GetItems("MyTable")
.TopN(10)
.WhereEquals("ItemCreatedBy", user.UserID)
.OrderBy("ItemCreatedWhen");
My question is:
can I query any table by its name?
One last thing:
I cannot declared those table as "custom table" because it seems to be a bug in the CMS.
Or you can pull data using your own SQL query:
var ds = ConnectionHelper.ExecuteQuery("select ....", null, QueryTypeEnum.SQLQuery);
Nevertheless I would recommend to create a custom class inside a custom module (much more robust than custom tables) instead and use the generated Info and InfoProvider classes to get and manipulate data.
I think an object has to be registered within the system (created through Kentico UI or API) in order to be pulled from DB with object query.
So I'd choose one of the following options:
Use Entity Framework or something similar to work with that data
Create appropriate custom tables or even custom module and push data there. Not sure why you can't create a custom table... What is an error you're getting?
If you need to present data on the UI only (without processing on the back end) - use just custom queries
Hope this helps.
If you are accessing in code then you could do it the good old fashioned way. If you want to pull data from the database to display on the website you could also do so by creating a custom query and using a transformation to display the fields, then use a repeater on the page to display the transformed data. Alternatively you can use a SQL datasource with a basic repeater, but you still have to create a transformation to display the data. Both methods allow you to access the data in the tables from within the CMS UI, no need to touch any code behind.
If your objective is to read data from these database tables to transform on webpage e.g. using CMS Repeater webpart, you can simply create custom query(s) in Kentico itself and load data using it. You can find the detail here on how to create custom custom queries and load data using it.
On the other hand you can also write your custom classes and define the custom methods where you can pull data using your own SQL query like this:
var ds = ConnectionHelper.ExecuteQuery("select ....", null, QueryTypeEnum.SQLQuery);
Lastly I don't think there should be any issue to create custom table instead of those direct DB tables, only thing we have to ensure code name of custom table should be unique means don't try to use exact same name because it'll cause exception due to same table name already exist in DB. You can please share exception you getting while creating custom table so that I can help you out further.
When Importing data to an Index in Azure Search, from SQL (progrematically not through the interface), Is there a way to add Query to filter the data come from the SQL table ?
Looking at the REST API documentation for Create Data Source, as of today it is not possible to define a query to filter the data that populates an index.
However I read somewhere that you can create a View and use that as the data source for populating the index. However when using a view, you will not be able to use SQL Integrated change tracking for change / deletion detection. However, you will still be able to use High Water Mark change detection and Soft Delete Column deletion detection.
Also, please vote for this UserVoice suggestion to request adding support for query parameter.