Windows Azure Training Series: Creating an Azure Storage Account
Feb 21,
2011
In this blog post, I assume you already have an Azure subscription and a user account set up. If you do not, check out Windows Azure Training Series: Understanding Subscriptions and Users. You might also like to read Windows Azure Training Series: Understanding Azure Storage for an overview of Azure storage. Creating a new Azure storage account […]
Windows Azure Training Series: Understanding Azure Storage
Feb 16,
2011
Windows Azure Storage Choices There are a couple common ways of storing data when using Microsoft Windows Azure. One is SQL Azure, which is a cloud-based version of Microsoft SQL Server. The other is Azure storage. SQL Azure will be familiar to those who already understand relational databases. It may also make moving an application […]
Windows Azure Storage, Part 2
Mar 17,
2010
Azure Table Storage In contrast to Blobs, Azure tables offer structured storage. These “tables”, however, are not to be confused with tables that might exist in the context of a relational database. In fact Azure tables are more like a typical “object database” where each table contains multiple objects, or “entities”. An entity in Azure […]