In this article you will learn about the Azure search service, Upload Data to Index.
In this article, we will learn about the methods we can use to upload the application data to Azure Search Index. In our previous articles related to Azure Search Service, we have learned the following:
In this article, we will discuss the methods supported, as of this writing, to load data into the Azure Search Indexes. Currently, there are two ways in which you could upload your application specific data to the Azure Search Index.
Method 1 Push data to Azure Search index As of this writing, you can push your data into Azure Index only through .NET SDK or REST API, provided by Microsoft Azure.
Other important notes about this Push method -
This is the most flexible way to push data to your Azure Search Index as you would be preparing the data as per the .NET SDK or the REST API, irrespective of where your application data is stored. Method 2: Pull data from a data source and insert data into Azure Search Index As of this writing, this option automatically crawls the data from the following data sources.
In this method, we don’t need to pass any data to Azure Search. We just need to connect these Data Sources to Azure Search. We would discuss about this method in detail in the upcoming articles. Summary In this article, we have learned about the methods that are available currently for populating the data to the Azure Search Index.
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