Hands-On Azure for Developers

Storing data in Table Storage

Each record in Table Storage has a row structure with multiple columns. Each row has the following base columns:

• PartitionKey: Identifier of a partition of a row
• RowKey: The row's identifier
• Timestamp: This column tells you when a row was recently modified
• ETag: Table Storage implements the optimistic concurrency model and uses ETags to control whether an entity should be modified or not

Of course, you are not limited to the columns listed above—you can create any additional columns you want and give each a specified type. However, before we go any further, you have to fully understand the implications of such a design. Here you can find an example of entities stored within a single table:

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