| Can you define table storage in Azure?
As we all knows that huge ammount of strutured data are stored in Windows Azure Table storage service. And this is a NoSQL service which takes calls from both inside and outside the Windows Azure Cloud. Now comes to different object properties in Azure:-
(1)Table:-When we say about table in Azure its a group of objects. And in Tables we donot impose a format and entities. So a single table can contain entities with various sets of characteristics. Many Tables can be found in a single account.
(2)Entity:-When we say about entity it is similar to a database entry, an entity is a collection of attributes. A single entity can be 1MB in size.
(3)Properties:-When we say about properties in Azure we refer name-value pair as a property. And each object can have up to 252 properties. And in addition each entity has three system properties.
(i)A partition key
(ii)A row key
(iii)A timestamp | | |