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Microsoft Azure: Enterprise Application Development

You're reading from   Microsoft Azure: Enterprise Application Development Straight talking advice on how to design and build enterprise applications for the cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849680981
Length 248 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Microsoft Azure: Enterprise Application Development
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
1. Preface
1. Introduction to Cloud Computing FREE CHAPTER 2. The Nickel Tour of Azure 3. Setting Up for Development 4. Designing our Sample Application 5. Introduction to SQL Azure 6. Azure Blob Storage 7. Azure Table Storage 8. Queue Storage 9. Web Role 10. Web Services and Azure 11. Worker Roles 12. Local Application for Updates 13. Azure AppFabric 14. Azure Monitoring and Diagnostics 15. Deploying to Windows Azure Index

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One of the biggest features of Table Storage may be its size. Table Storage is scalable, and tables can be massive, occupying terabytes of space and containing billions of entities. There are no set limits as to the number of tables or the size of each table. Naturally, all of this data will not exist on a single node. Tables will be spread out over numerous servers, and "hot partitions" will be load balanced and located for efficient delivery. Table Storage is persistent, so if we turn our Azure instance off, our data will be restored when we turn our instance back on.

There are a couple data access options for Table Storage too. We can access tables directly via a REST API, or we can query a table via a subset of LINQ and a client library for ADO.NET Data Services.

As with other forms of data access, table queries can timeout. Each table query is limited to 1,000 results or 5 seconds of execution, whichever comes first. However, instead of throwing an error when...

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