Developing Cloud Applications with Windows Azure™ Storage

Chapter 6. Tables

In this chapter:

• Table basics

• Table storage structure

• Table addressing

• Entity properties

• Entity partitions

• Table and property naming rules

• Visualizing table entities

• Creating tables

• The Table service and the Open Data Protocol

• Serializing and deserializing entities with CloudTable

• Data operation options

• Table queries

• Table entity ordering

• Storing multiple entity types in a single table

• Selecting good partition keys

• Segmented queries and continuation tokens

• Cross-table consistency

• Table operation concurrency

• Conclusion

In this chapter, you learn about Windows Azure table storage. First, you examine the characteristics of this kind of data storage, including the kinds of real-world data and storage scenarios that lend themselves well to it. You then ...