Exam Ref 70-487: Developing Windows Azure and Web Services

Answers

This section contains the solutions to the thought experiments and answers to the objective review questions in this chapter.

Objective 2.1: Thought experiment

1. The answer depends on how the data is used. Chances are that only a portion of the items in the chain will be referenced frequently. You might have an application that needs all the data or most of it for every typical use case, however. It depends on the nature of the application. It should be tested extensively, and logging and tracing should be used to see how frequently the nonparent data is referenced.

2. If you pull back all the data, you might have performance or responsiveness issues, especially if you have network constraints. If each of the children or grandchildren has only ...