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Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook Realize the full potential of Windows Azure with this superb Cookbook that has over 80 recipes for building advanced, scalable cloud-based services. Simply pick the solutions you need to answer your requirements immediately.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849682220
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Controlling Access in the Windows Azure Platform FREE CHAPTER 2. Handling Blobs in Windows Azure 3. Going NoSQL with Windows Azure Tables 4. Disconnecting with Windows Azure Queues 5. Developing Hosted Services for Windows Azure 6. Digging into Windows Azure Diagnostics 7. Managing Hosted Services with the Service Management API 8. Using SQL Azure 9. Looking at the Windows Azure AppFabric Index

Using entity group transactions


The Windows Azure Table Service supports entity group transactions in which, a group of storage operations on entities with the same PartitionKey are handled atomically. That is, if any operation in the group fails, then all the operations are rolled back. Unlike transactions in a traditional SQL database, entity group transactions cannot span tables or even partitions.

A single entity group transaction is limited to no more than 100 storage operations and a total size of 4 MB. An individual entity can be used only once in an entity group transaction. Any combination of create, update, and delete operations can be contained in an entity group transaction. Alternatively, it can contain only query operations. However, an entity group transaction may not combine queries with create, update, and delete operations.

The concept of entity group transactions exists in the WCF Data Services that the table functionality of the Storage Client library is based on. In WCF...

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