February 2010
Beginner
400 pages
11h 13m
English
Content preview from Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010
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16.12. Table Storage
Azure table storage is the third Azure storage option; it allows you to store .NET objects (entities in Azure terminology) and access them in a manner compatible with WCF Data Services. Azure table storage also requires that your entities have three additional fields:
PartitionKey
RowKey
TimeStamp
PartionKey and RowKey are combined as a composite key to uniquely identify a row, so it is important the combination of the two must be unique (Figure 16-20). The PartitionKey can be used by Azure to divide data onto different servers for load-balancing purposes, while TimeStamp is used for conflict resolution.
Figure 16.20. Visualization of an Azure table
I think it's fair to say that table storage is probably not the most intuitive ...