Azure AI Search
An Azure search service with built-in artificial intelligence capabilities that enrich information to help identify and explore relevant content at scale.
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how can I import data from multiple containers for Microsoft Search?
I want to use Microsoft Azure Search to look through JSON BLOB containers. The wizard only appears to let me set up one connection (connection string) to a BLOB container, but I want to index all (multiple) BLOB containers within a storage account. …
asked 2022-04-08T23:12:12.553+00:00
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Stephen Lawrence
61
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commented 2022-12-27T18:55:45.153+00:00
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ajkuma
24,971
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Azure Cognitive Search using External Data Source
Is there a way to use external database server when importing data for Azure Cognitive Search service ? Currently, the database server I used is SQL but can be changed later. So, I'm looking a general way to import external database server data…
asked 2022-12-22T02:43:12.693+00:00
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Hung, Charles
26
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commented 2022-12-27T03:55:46.577+00:00
Hung, Charles
26
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Azure Cognitive Search OCR skill to extract text from images
I have an app hosted on Azure. I use Azure blob to store the files uploaded. There is Azure Cognitive Search service created. And I created an OCR skillset to extract the text from the images uploaded to Blob storage. The skillset JSON is shown as below:…
asked 2022-12-15T11:51:34.48+00:00
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Jason Sun
1
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answered 2022-12-19T08:09:22.657+00:00
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SnehaAgrawal-MSFT
20,856
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Throughput for Computer Vision API
Hi, I am trying to run OCR on PDF's as part of skills pipeline in Cognitive Search (Standard2, 2 Replica's, 2 Partition, 4 Search Units). 20 pdf's with 50 pages each, its taking 20 mins to process. Following is my skillset definition. I did create a…
asked 2022-12-07T02:35:48.933+00:00
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Anonymous
commented 2022-12-08T08:21:50.897+00:00
ajkuma
24,971
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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How to do , 'not contains' search for text and other fields in azure cognitive search
1) What is the correct syntax for doing a not contains text search? I would like to pull all fileNames that doesnot contain "test" in the file name. 2) For the same field i want to a contains search also like , I would like to pull all…
asked 2022-12-01T07:14:41.427+00:00
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Soorya Prabha Jagatheesan
1
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answered 2022-12-08T06:31:50.333+00:00
brtrach-MSFT
15,791
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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How to retrieve a "Null" facet from the @search.facets result?
I've got a faceted field which value is not required, so some records will have it assigned to null. I am able to search and get all the records that have it set to null by using $filter=country eq null However, @Anonymous .facets will only…
asked 2022-12-02T00:33:43.2+00:00
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Nico Guedes
1
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commented 2022-12-06T13:06:31.157+00:00
Nico Guedes
1
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Azure Cognitive Search multiple blob datasource virtual folders
Is there a way to include multiple blob virtual folders in a pipeline? For example, in Datasources, we can only provide a single virtual folder, and in Indexers we can further filter by file extension. However, what I'd like to do is include two (or…
asked 2022-11-25T17:16:28.69+00:00
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Alex Gagnon
87
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accepted 2022-11-30T19:52:03.137+00:00
Alex Gagnon
87
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Azure Cognitive Search query multiple indexes
In Elasticsearch, we are able to query multiple indexes in a single request but comma separating their names in the path, for example /index-1, index2/_search. Does Cognitive Search offer a comparable solution?
asked 2022-11-25T17:19:11.087+00:00
Alex Gagnon
87
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accepted 2022-11-30T14:46:24.69+00:00
Alex Gagnon
87
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Azure cognitive search with more fields
I have more than 1000+ fields. Expecting more fields in future as well. How can I achieve the search for all these fields . Please suggest.
asked 2022-11-29T05:20:48.323+00:00
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Sathya Chenniappan
1
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answered 2022-11-30T14:06:26.007+00:00
Ryan Hill
27,031
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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The query with Semantic doesn't include result as expected
Hi Team， What I've done I've connected datasource with azure db , there is a work location field for each document. I've created one semantic configuration with location city as content field I'm querying the index using the Azure…
asked 2022-11-29T01:40:03.137+00:00
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yanfeng gao
1
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commented 2022-11-30T05:04:33.85+00:00
VenkateshDodda-MSFT
19,646
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
Azure cognitive search not working on SharePoint subdirectory
I have a SharePoint site which contains multiple folders. I would like to setup an Azure Cognitive Search Index on only one of the subfolders within this site. Creation of the datasource works without error. However, whenever I go to create the indexer,…
asked 2022-11-24T11:25:18.69+00:00
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Waleed Alfaris
1
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answered 2022-11-28T16:18:18.353+00:00
SnehaAgrawal-MSFT
20,856
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2 answers
Fetching associated values to an entity from Cognitive Search service
I have a cognitive search service that is created with a set of resumes, so it reads the resumes and makes them searchable. I have an additional need now to search whether there is a duration associated to each organization that the person worked in.…
asked 2022-11-17T21:08:54.187+00:00
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AdusumalliHaripriya-5428
1
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answered 2022-11-28T12:06:44.04+00:00
SnehaAgrawal-MSFT
20,856
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How to add Indexer for 70 million data in Azure cognitive search?
our DB table contains 70 million data, and Indexer is timing out after 24hrs and getting stopped at 50 million, can you please suggest in which way I can retrieve entire data within less than 24 hrs.
asked 2022-11-25T07:24:28.797+00:00
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Nagaramya Konudula
1
Reputation point Microsoft Employee
commented 2022-11-28T03:42:32.8+00:00
VenkateshDodda-MSFT
19,646
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
How to identify similar numbers from database before insert
I have a table with 20 million rows of phone numbers, which is synced to azure cognitive search. I need to search before creating a new row. Lets say I have a record with number "1234567890" if a request comes with number "1234567899"…
asked 2022-11-19T17:10:34.037+00:00
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Abhinav Reddy Muthyala
1
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answered 2022-11-22T17:21:48.843+00:00
SnehaAgrawal-MSFT
20,856
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0 answers
Azure Search Storage
our Azure Search storage got 100% occupied (25GB) due to this, our consistency got affected to release some space we want to delete its old data date range between 1st April 2021 to 30 Nov 2021 how I can do this ?
asked 2022-11-16T07:40:26.563+00:00
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Vaibhav Lambat
21
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commented 2022-11-19T15:35:44.343+00:00
Vaibhav Lambat
21
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Duplicate documents inside the index Azure Cognitive Search after Indexer re-run on schedul. Can we overwrite data inside Index?
I created an Azure Cognitive Search using a Cosmos DB SQL API database. I created the index and the indexer. My Cosmos DB database is refreshed daily. Hence, I created the indexer in my azure search to be refreshed on schedule. The problem I have now is…
asked 2022-11-07T22:16:03.367+00:00
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Redar Ismail Chicho
1
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answered 2022-11-10T20:20:42.717+00:00
ajkuma
24,971
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
How to store 2D array of Double data type in Azure search index
What Type should we choose to store 2 dimensional array of double data type in Azure search index.
asked 2022-10-28T03:26:15.67+00:00
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Debashis Jena
71
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answered 2022-10-28T15:07:47.033+00:00
ajkuma
24,971
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
Queries related to Azure Cognitive Search
I want to parse a set of pdfs from Azure Blob Storage by Azure cognitive search. Is it possible to add any option during the skill set generation for summarizing the text? How can I extract the images from the file using Azure cognitive search? I…
asked 2022-10-26T18:53:41.937+00:00
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Ansuman Biswas
6
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answered 2022-10-28T08:08:56.91+00:00
VenkateshDodda-MSFT
19,646
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer
Azure cognitive search
How do I know about the list of keywords that are trending searches (like - this month, last month, overall) in Azure Cognitive Search service?
asked 2022-10-19T05:06:56.057+00:00
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AzureUser-9588
151
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answered 2022-10-27T13:45:40.59+00:00
SnehaAgrawal-MSFT
20,856
Reputation points
1 answer
Azure Cognitive Search issue - Could not fetch additional columns from item/Could not map output field 'title' to search index. Check the 'outputFieldMappings' property of your indexer.
Hi there, I'm pretty new to ACS and trying to debug an issue why the indexer is showing errors. The errors are more like warning so not sure why this is happening. The warnings are :- Could not fetch additional columns from item Could…
asked 2022-10-25T03:54:30.937+00:00
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Patrick Ige
1
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answered 2022-10-27T09:18:23.783+00:00
SnehaAgrawal-MSFT
20,856
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