Windows Azure storage has been around for a number of years now. With the rising popularity of NoSQL data stores, it’s time to take a fresh look at Azure Storage. Azure offers a lot of advantages to the .NET developer. In this session we will discuss the ins and outs of Tables and when you might want to use each. We’ll use the local Azure Storage emulator for development and write code to perform CRUD operations against Tables.

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Blobs and Tables in the Real World
Azure Storage Revisited

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Azure Storage Costs (Monthly)
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/
 Block Blobs: start at $0.024 per GB
 Tables and Queues: start at $0.07 per GB
 Outbound data: $0.12 per GB
 Free within the same data center
 Transactions: $0.005 per 100,000 transactions
 Every authenticated request is a transaction
 Response does not have to return data to count as a transaction
 Beware of Queue processors!

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Blob Storage Overview
 Typically for documents, pictures, music, videos
 An account has blob containers (∞)
 A blob can be any type
 A blob can be up to 200GB

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Blob Storage Structure
Account Blocks/
Pages
BlobsContainers
wintellect
pictures
documents
Employee.jpg
Building.jpg
Foo.docx
Bar.pptx
(block/page 0)
(block/page 1)
(block/page 2)

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Accessing a Blob via URL
 Normal URL addressing:
http://account.blob.core.windows.net/container/blob
http://account-secondary.blob.core.windows.net/container/blob
 Azure & Storage Emulator examples:
http://wintellect.blob.core.windows.net/pictures/Employee.jpg
http://127.0.0.1:10000/devstorageaccount1/pictures/Employee.jpg
 Container & Blob naming rules
 Containers: Lowercase, 3-63 characters
 Blobs: Mixed case (case sensitive), 1-1024 characters
 Naming violation results in HTTP 400 (Bad Request)
 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd135715.aspx

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Shared Access Signatures (SAS)
 SAS grants granular access to container, blob, table, & queue
 Scenarios: Grant access to logged-in users, write-only container/table/queue,
give users access based on role
 SAS embeds access in URL query string
 Includes time window, permissions,
& optional policy identifier (≤5 per resource
 Make sure you distribute SAS securely
 Always use HTTPS to access the resource

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What is Azure Table Storage?
 Non-relational Data Store
 Meant for storing Structured Data
 Extremely high capacity and scalability
 NoSQL

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Table Basics
 A Table itself is (basically) structure-less
 Every row has a PartitionKey, RowKey, TimeStamp, and E-Tag.
 Every row has a property bag (columns) that represents its structure
 Every row is independent
 Properties can be Boolean, Int32s, Int64s, Strings, Doubles, Guids, DateTimes, or
Binary

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Wintellect Azure Storage Library
 Written by Jeffrey Richter
 Simplifies working with Azure Storage
 High Performance
 Available on Nuget
 https://www.nuget.org/packages/Wintellect.Azure.Storage/

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Demo Title, if Desired

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Questions?
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