I am working on a web application that will serve as the help system for one of my companies existing products. One of the features I have implemented is a chatbot that is powered by an Azure Open ...

I am playing around with this example chat application which retrieves most relevant documents from Cognitive Search to help the chatbot answer users' questions. The document retrieval itself is no...

Is there any simple way to remove all documents (or a filtered list or documents) from an Azure search index? I know the obvious answer is to delete and recreate the index, but I'm wondering if th...

I have this private string DecodeBase64(string base64Input) { try { if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(base64Input)) { return ""; } byte[] decodedBytes = Convert.FromBase64String(base64Inpu...

I'm doing a job to check if all records from my database exists on Azure Search (around 610k). However there's a 100000 limit with the $skip parameter. Is there a way to work around this limit?

Quite new to Azure Search, and just wondering what is the difference between facet and filter? Say I have a product table, and it has category and subcategories. If I want to return things under o...

I am trying to unit test code that uses SearchClient.SearchAsync() method. I am using AutoFixture.AutoMoq nuget package. Here is what I tried: mockSearchClient.Setup(msc => msc.SearchAsync<My...

I'm using the Azure Search .Net SDK. I'm calling a synchronous (NOT ASYNC) function like this: var searchResults = searchIndexClient.Documents.Search<T>(searchText, searchParameters); It ...

I want to add a scoring profile on my index on Azure Search. More specifically, every document in my index has a weight field of type Edm.Double, and I want to boost them according to this value. I...

Hi I have a string field which can be empty\null for certain documents. I like to know how to search for those documents. I want to know thru searchquery and not ODatFilter as I may like to solve ...

We had some big excitement yesterday. Two of our web apps (both deployed and untouched for at least 3 months) that use AzureSearch's SDK stopped working at different times (one early morning; the o...

I use the Azure Search indexer to index documents from a MongoDB CosmosDB which contains objects with fields named _id. As Azure Search does not allow underscores at the beginning of a field name ...

Is there a way to test the Azure Search in local development environment? Without actually connecting to Azure. That would work offline. I'm thinking of a something like the Azure Storage emulator....

in a commercial application it is not uncommun to have hundreds facets. Of course not all products are flaged with all of them. But when searching I need to add a facet querystring parameter that ...

A while ago I set up a search index for a web application. One of the requirements was to return partial matches of the search terms. For instance, searching for Joh should find John Doe. The most ...

Using .NetCore 1.1.2. After successfully getting results from a search via Azure Search SDK, I am trying to decode the metadata_storage_path value. I've seen people saying to use HttpServerUtility...

I am using Azure Search and trying to perform a search against documents: It seems as though doing this: /indexes/blah/docs?api-version=2015-02-28&search=abc\-1003 returns the same results as...

I would like to know how to delete a specific document in an index of Azure Search. I would like to use "id" to delete a document by using the REST API. I have searched, but couldn't find out the...

I have a file in blob storage folder/new/data1.json. data1 contains json array. [ { "name": "na", "data": { "1":"something1", "2":"something2" } }, { "name": "ha", "data": { "1":"som...

I am a newbie to search engines and information retrieval. Can someone explain how different is Lucene search engine compared to Azure Search. I read the Azure Search documents and see that Azure...

I am using Azure for hosting my project and chosen blob to store all by files (as they are in megabyte and count is huge). I have a requirement to search within all my files in blob (kind of like f...

I was wondering if there any good resources for best practices to deal with changes (Add/remove fields from search index) to your search index without taking your Azure search service and index dow...

I have documents which look like below: { "@search.score": 1, "id": "cbdcc14a-4eab-7ce2-8c47-34cba81df722", "salesforceRecordID": "0015B00000Rtz4QQAR", "ownerType": "ABCS", "productDescripti...

Currently, I am trying out Azure Search SDK. Having a strong background working with lucene and bobobrowse, the Azure Search is quite fantastic and has a lot of features from both frameworks out of...

I am having a single quote in the data in filter condition. Example: David O'Neil. So If we have give this in Search Explorer as, *&$count=true&$filter=Name eq 'David O'Neil' How can...