What is search service in Azure?
Azure Cognitive Search (formerly known as “Azure Search”) is a cloud search service that gives developers infrastructure, APIs, and tools for building a rich search experience over private, heterogeneous content in web, mobile, and enterprise applications.
How do I create an index in Azure search?
Create an index and load data
- Sign in to the Azure portal with your Azure account.
- Find your search service and on the Overview page, click Import data on the command bar to create and populate a search index.
- In the wizard, click Connect to your data > Samples > hotels-sample.
- Continue to the next page.
What is a searchable index?
Cognitive Search stores searchable content used for full text and filtered queries in a search index. An index is defined by a schema and saved to the service, with data import following as a second step. Indexes contain search documents. Conceptually, a document is a single unit of searchable data in your index.
How do I set up Azure cognitive search?
Find the Azure Cognitive Search offering
- Sign in to the Azure portal.
- Click the plus sign (“+ Create Resource”) in the top-left corner.
- Use the search bar to find “Azure Cognitive Search” or navigate to the resource through Web > Azure Cognitive Search.
How can I change the Azure Search index?
Modifying an existing Azure Search index typically requires an index drop and rebuild, with the exception of the following schema changes: Add new fields. Add or change scoring profiles. Change CORS options. Change existing fields with any of the following three modifications: Show or hide fields (retrievable: true | false)
Is there a way to rebuild the search index?
In the Advanced Options dialog box, on the Index Settings tab, under Troubleshooting, click Rebuild. Note: A Rebuild Index dialog box opens warning that the “index might take a long time to complete.” Choose OK to start rebuilding the index.
Can You rebuild an inverted index in azure Cognitive Search?
A rebuild refers to dropping and recreating the physical data structures associated with an index, including all field-based inverted indexes. In Azure Cognitive Search, you cannot drop and recreate individual fields.
Can a field be rebuilt in an index?
Revising a field name, data type, or specific index attributes (searchable, filterable, sortable, facetable) requires a full rebuild. Analyzers are defined in an index and then assigned to fields. You can add a new analyzer definition to an index at any time, but you can only assign an analyzer when the field is created.