How to create a auto incremented column in Documentdb

Question

I want to create a document in azure documentdb with an auto-increment column.

Is this possible? If yes, please guide me.

Any help would be greatly appreciat

Answer 1

DocumentDB doesn't include auto-increment functionality out of the box.

As Gaurav mentioned in Do we have Identity Column in DocumentDB, the id field is special in that if a value isn't provided by the application - DocumentDB will assign a GUID automatically.

If you need the auto-increment functionality, one potential solution would be to store a counter as a document and leverage DocumentDB's triggers to populate your field and update the counter.