Adrian Hills takes us through using Azure Table Storage:
Azure Table Storage is a NoSQL key-value PaaS data store that can be a great option for highly scalable, highly available systems. It supports storing petabytes of data and a flexible data schema, meaning different entities in the same table can have different schemas. References to NoSQL databases having “flexible schema” or being “schema-less” can give the impression that database schema design is a thing of the past and that you can bypass it and focus more on the application code. The reality is, even in this NoSQL world, schema design is very important and if you don’t give it due care and attention, then it can come back to bite you.
If you have a RDBMS background and are new to Azure Table Storage, it’s common to find yourself “thinking in SQL” and trying to solve database modeling requirements with a SQL approach before then trying to translate that to a key-value mindset. In this blog post, I’ll cover some of the fundamentals of Azure Table Storage and dive into some common questions you might find yourself asking about Azure Table Storage. Where code samples or references are applicable in this blog post, we’ll be focusing on .NET and using the Azure SDK (specifically relating to the Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos.Table nuget package).
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