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How to Change Partition Keys in Azure Cosmos DB

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Azure Cosmos DB containers have fixed partition keys at creation, but you can change them by moving data to a new container. Options include the portal's Change partition key feature, container copy jobs, or DIY migration. For read-only queries, a Global Secondary Index adds a separate container with a different key without moving the source.

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The post is a practical guide for Cosmos DB users facing hot partitions or cross-partition queries, but it assumes familiarity with Azure's ecosystem and doesn't address cost implications of the migration options.
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