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Building RAG Applications with Azure Cognitive Search and OpenAI
RAG with Azure Cognitive Search and Azure OpenAI is the production architecture I recommend most often for enterprise knowledge retrieval — not because it's…
Cognitive Search
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Implementing RAG with Azure Cognitive Search
RAG is the bridge between general-purpose LLMs and your specific enterprise data. Get it right, and you unlock tremendous value.
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Azure Cognitive Search and Embeddings Before Native Vector Search
Azure Cognitive Search can't search vectors in January 2023. Here's how to re-rank its keyword results with Azure OpenAI embeddings, and when not to bother.
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Building Custom Skills for Azure Cognitive Search
Custom skills unlock unlimited possibilities for AI enrichment tailored to your specific business needs.
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Building Skillsets in Azure Cognitive Search
Skillsets enable powerful AI-driven content enrichment during the indexing process.
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Debug Sessions for Cognitive Search Skillsets
Debug sessions are essential for developing and troubleshooting complex AI enrichment pipelines efficiently.
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Enrichment Cache in Azure Cognitive Search
Enrichment cache significantly reduces costs and improves performance for AI-enriched search solutions.
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Working with Projections in Azure Cognitive Search
Projections enable flexible storage and querying of AI-enriched content for various downstream use cases.
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Knowledge Store in Azure Cognitive Search
Knowledge Store enables rich analytics and knowledge graph construction from AI-enriched content.
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Hybrid Search Patterns in Azure Cognitive Search
Hybrid search patterns enable building search systems that handle diverse query types effectively.
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Vector Search Preview in Azure Cognitive Search
Vector search enables powerful similarity-based retrieval that complements traditional keyword search.
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Semantic Search in Azure Cognitive Search
Semantic search dramatically improves search relevance by understanding user intent rather than just matching keywords.
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Azure Cognitive Search Updates and New Features
Azure Cognitive Search provides enterprise-grade search capabilities with AI enrichment options.
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SQL Database Indexing with Azure Cognitive Search
Azure SQL to Cognitive Search is a combination I've set up half a dozen times, and the reason it keeps appearing is that most enterprise organisations…
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Blob Storage Indexing with Azure Cognitive Search
When indexing blobs, the indexer performs several operations: 1. Enumerate blobs Find blobs matching your criteria 2. Download content Retrieve blob data 3.…
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Azure Search Indexers - Automated Data Ingestion Strategies
Indexers handle the ETL process for search: Requires a column that increases monotonically: Enable change tracking on your database: Source JSON: Source…
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Azure Cognitive Search Custom Skills - Building Intelligent Search Pipelines
Custom skills are Azure Functions that implement a specific contract.
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Relevance Tuning in Azure Cognitive Search: Analyzers to Scoring
How to tune Azure Cognitive Search relevance with BM25 settings, custom analyzers, synonym maps, scoring profiles and query syntax, and when to leave defaults.
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Azure Cognitive Search: AI-Powered Skillsets
Indexing PDFs is easy. Indexing PDFs in a way that makes them findable is a different sport. Cognitive Search skillsets are the part I usually sell to…
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Azure Cognitive Search Indexers for Document Processing
Most "search" tutorials I see stop at "create an index, push some JSON, query it." That's the easy 10%. The 90% that matters in real projects is the indexer…
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Designing an Azure Cognitive Search Index with the v11 .NET SDK
How to size an Azure Cognitive Search service, design index fields you won't regret, and query safely with the newly GA Azure.Search.Documents v11 SDK.