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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…
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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 Vector Search Preview: Native Azure Vector DB
Native Azure Integration : Works seamlessly with Azure services Hybrid Search : Combine vectors with full text search Enterprise Ready : Security,…
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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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Advanced Azure Cognitive Search Techniques
Default Cognitive Search will get you to "decent enough." Excellent search is a tuning exercise, and the levers that matter are mostly hidden. Custom…
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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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Building Search Solutions with Azure Cognitive Search
Azure Cognitive Search provides powerful search capabilities that can transform how users find and discover content in your applications.