Chapter 7. Azure Table Storage

Another storage option in Windows Azure is Table Storage. In this chapter, we'll examine Table Storage and the Table Services API in further detail. Table Storage is a persistent repository that can scale to humongous proportions (unlike SQL Azure, which is limited to gigabytes per database). It is accessible by both REST – the Windows Azure Management Library and client libraries for ADO.NET Data Services.

In this chapter, we'll:

• Compare Table Storage with relational database tables

• Discuss some pros and cons of Table Storage

• See how to access Table Storage via REST or a .NET client library.

• Consider error handling when working with Table Storage