Learning Microsoft Azure Storage

Table storage key points

The following tips should be considered, as they will help you when designing your storage solution using the Table storage service:

• Table storage supports Standard Storage, but its support for Premium Storage is in preview at the time of writing
• Table storage is significantly lower in cost than traditional SQL
• The entity can have up to 252 custom properties, and 3 system properties (PartitionKey, RowKey, and Timestamp)
• The entity's properties data cannot exceed 1 MB
• Table names must follow the following rules:
  • They are case sensitive
  • They contain only alphanumeric characters, considering that they cannot begin with a numeric character
  • They cannot be redundant within the same storage account
  • You can name a table ...