`ARRAY_SLICE` (NoSQL query)

2025-07-03
Applies to: Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL, Cosmos DB in Fabric

The ARRAY_SLICE function returns a subset of an array expression using the index and length specified.

Syntax

ARRAY_SLICE(<array_expr>, <numeric_expr_1> [, <numeric_expr_2>])

Arguments

	Description
`array_expr`	An array expression.
`numeric_expr_1`	A numeric expression indicating the index where to begin the array for the subset. Optionally, negative values can be used to specify the starting index relative to the last element of the array.
`numeric_expr_2`	An optional numeric expression indicating the maximum length of elements in the resulting array.

Return types

Returns an array expression.

Examples

This section contains examples of how to use this query language construct.

Array slice examples

In this example, the ARRAY_SLICE function is used to get subsets of an array.

SELECT VALUE {
  sliceFromStart: ARRAY_SLICE(["Alpha", "Bravo", "Charlie", "Delta", "Echo", "Foxtrot", "Golf"], 0),
  sliceFromSecond: ARRAY_SLICE(["Alpha", "Bravo", "Charlie", "Delta", "Echo", "Foxtrot", "Golf"], 1),
  sliceFromLast: ARRAY_SLICE(["Alpha", "Bravo", "Charlie", "Delta", "Echo", "Foxtrot", "Golf"], -1),
  sliceFromSecondToLast: ARRAY_SLICE(["Alpha", "Bravo", "Charlie", "Delta", "Echo", "Foxtrot", "Golf"], -2),
  sliceThreeFromStart: ARRAY_SLICE(["Alpha", "Bravo", "Charlie", "Delta", "Echo", "Foxtrot", "Golf"], 0, 3),
  sliceTwelveFromStart: ARRAY_SLICE(["Alpha", "Bravo", "Charlie", "Delta", "Echo", "Foxtrot", "Golf"], 0, 12),
  sliceFiveFromThird: ARRAY_SLICE(["Alpha", "Bravo", "Charlie", "Delta", "Echo", "Foxtrot", "Golf"], 3, 5),
  sliceOneFromSecondToLast: ARRAY_SLICE(["Alpha", "Bravo", "Charlie", "Delta", "Echo", "Foxtrot", "Golf"], -2, 1)
}

[
  {
    "sliceFromStart": [
      "Alpha",
      "Bravo",
      "Charlie",
      "Delta",
      "Echo",
      "Foxtrot",
      "Golf"
    ],
    "sliceFromSecond": [
      "Bravo",
      "Charlie",
      "Delta",
      "Echo",
      "Foxtrot",
      "Golf"
    ],
    "sliceFromLast": [
      "Golf"
    ],
    "sliceFromSecondToLast": [
      "Foxtrot",
      "Golf"
    ],
    "sliceThreeFromStart": [
      "Alpha",
      "Bravo",
      "Charlie"
    ],
    "sliceTwelveFromStart": [
      "Alpha",
      "Bravo",
      "Charlie",
      "Delta",
      "Echo",
      "Foxtrot",
      "Golf"
    ],
    "sliceFiveFromThird": [
      "Delta",
      "Echo",
      "Foxtrot",
      "Golf"
    ],
    "sliceOneFromSecondToLast": [
      "Foxtrot"
    ]
  }
]

Remarks

This function doesn't utilize the index.

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ARRAY_SLICE (NoSQL query)