Files holding unformatted text. Knowledge Assistant can ingest them whatever their length in pages.
Also called plain text.
In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains TXT in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Knowledge Assistant
A chatbot builder from Agent Bricks, now legacy, that answers questions from documents and gives citations. Genie Agents (low-code) and the Agent Bricks CLI (code) are the routes for anything new.
- LENGTH
Counts the characters in a string, or the bytes in binary data, in SQL.
char_lengthandcharacter_lengthare other names for it.
Related terms
- ai_classify
Sorts content under labels you define, whether plain text or the VARIANT that
ai_parse_documentreturns. This task-specific AI Function can also take instructions and a description of each label. - ai_prep_search
Readies content for a search index: this AI Function, still in Beta, takes plain text, Markdown or the result of
ai_parse_documentand returns meaning-based chunks carrying context from the document. - APIM named values
Reusable name/value pairs referenced from API Management policies. A value can be held in plain text, encrypted inside APIM as a secret, or pulled from Key Vault through the instance's managed identity.
- Auto-quarantine
When a restricted app such as a cloud sync client touches a sensitive file, this Endpoint DLP action relocates the file to a quarantine folder the admin picks, optionally leaving a .txt placeholder behind. That stops the app repeatedly retrying.
- Batch synthesis API
Asynchronous text to speech REST API suited to big batches of SSML or plain text. Unlike the real-time REST API, which stops at 10 minutes of audio, it can generate longer output such as audiobooks.
- BIND zone file
Plain text file in the standard format that lists a DNS zone's records. You can import it with
az network dns zone importin the Azure CLI or through the portal; Azure PowerShell offers no cmdlet for this. - Custom domain
A DNS name of your own attached to a service. In an Entra tenant it is verified through a TXT or MX record, and every on-premises UPN suffix used to sign in must be one (.local can't be); for App Service it is bound with CNAME or TXT validation.
- Custom domain name
A DNS domain you own, contoso.com for example, added to a Microsoft Entra tenant next to the permanent onmicrosoft.com initial domain. Users can sign in with it once you have proved ownership through a TXT or MX record.