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Creating a Cosmos DB account and container

Your team wants to store customer order data in a flexible NoSQL database that can scale globally and support fast queries. They’ve asked you to set up an Azure Cosmos DB account and create a container to hold the order records. This will help the team evaluate Cosmos DB’s capabilities and see how it fits with the company’s growing data needs.

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Exercise instructions

Create an Azure Cosmos DB account using the NoSQL API and the Learning workload type.,Choose East US or your nearest region and deploy the resource.,Open Data Explorer in your Cosmos DB account.,Add a new database named “CustomerData.”,Create a container named “Orders” and set the partition key to /customerId. Screenshot showing the Azure Portal with the Cosmos DB NoSQL API setup page and Data Explorer container creation panel.

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