Which of the following is used in grouping a set of blobs?

Note If you wish to contribute to this page, use the Edit tab at the top (sign-in required). If you wish to provide feedback for this documentation please either send e-mail to In [[Windows Azure and SQL DatabaseTutorials - Tutorial 1: Using Windows Azure Web Role and Windows Azure Table Service|tutorial 1]], you created a simple golfer message board application. In the application, a Web role provides the front-end that allows golfers to view the contents of the message board and add new entries. Each entry contains a name and a message. When golfers post a new message, the Web role creates an entry using the Table service that contains the information entered by the golfers. The Web role also renders this information to the browser so golfers can view the content of the message board. Tutorial 3 is based on tutorial 1. In this tutorial, you will modify the application you created in tutorial 1. In addition to golfer name and a short message for each message ported to the message board, you will also add an image. You will keep using the Table service for the text portion of the messages, but use the Blob service for images. Last reviewed: 11/4/2011 Note: Completing tutorial 1 is not a pre-requisite for this tutorial. However, it helps with understanding the scenario. Note: The tutorial code has been tested on In this tutorial, you will learn how to: • Use the Blob service Note the following requirements before you begin this lesson: • Before you begin this step you must ...

Azure PowerShell Connect-AzAccount Get-AzStorageAccountKey Get-AzStorageBlob Get-AzStorageBlobContent Get-AzStorageContainer Get-AzSubscription Get-ChildItem Microsoft Microsoft Azure New-AzStorageContainer New-AzStorageContext Remove-AzStorageBlob Remove-AzStorageContainer Select-AzSubscription Select-Object Set-AzStorageBlobContent Storage Storage Account Storage accounts Show all tags Hello everyone, in this post, I want to show you the Azure PowerShell commands that I have been collecting to manage containers and blobs in the Azure Storage service. Prerequisites • This tutorial assumes that you already have a Microsoft Azure account configured. • You created a Resource Group for these resources, and the new ones deployed in this tutorial will join that group. If you want to know how to create a Resource Group, check out this • You can use an existing Storage Account, or you can create a new one. If you want to know how to create a Storage Account using PowerShell, check out this Connect-AzAccount This cmdlet will bring up a dialog box prompting you for your email address and password associated with your Azure account. If you have more than one subscription associated with your mail account, you can choose the default subscription. To perform this task, we will use the following commands: $resourceGroupName = "RG-DEMO-NE" $storageAccountName = "stoaccountps" $storageKey = ( Get-AzStorageAccountKey -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -Name $storageAccountName ). Value...

This article describes some strategies for partitioning data in various Azure data stores. For general guidance about when to partition data and best practices, see Partitioning Azure SQL Database A single SQL database has a limit to the volume of data that it can contain. Throughput is constrained by architectural factors and the number of concurrent connections that it supports. Each shard is implemented as a SQL database. A shard can hold more than one dataset (called a shardlet). Each database maintains metadata that describes the shardlets that it contains. A shardlet can be a single data item, or a group of items that share the same shardlet key. For example, in a multitenant application, the shardlet key can be the tenant ID, and all data for a tenant can be held in the same shardlet. Client applications are responsible for associating a dataset with a shardlet key. A separate SQL database acts as a global shard map manager. This database has a list of all the shards and shardlets in the system. The application connects to the shard map manager database to obtain a copy of the shard map. It caches the shard map locally, and uses the map to route data requests to the appropriate shard. This functionality is hidden behind a series of APIs that are contained in the For more information about elastic pools, see To reduce latency and improve availability, you can replicate the global shard map manager database. With the Premium pricing tiers, you can configure active geo...

In this article Azure Blob Storage is Microsoft's object storage solution for the cloud. Blob Storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data. Unstructured data is data that doesn't adhere to a particular data model or definition, such as text or binary data. About Blob Storage Blob Storage is designed for: • Serving images or documents directly to a browser. • Storing files for distributed access. • Streaming video and audio. • Writing to log files. • Storing data for backup and restore, disaster recovery, and archiving. • Storing data for analysis by an on-premises or Azure-hosted service. Users or client applications can access objects in Blob Storage via HTTP/HTTPS, from anywhere in the world. Objects in Blob Storage are accessible via the • • • • • Clients can also securely connect to Blob Storage by using SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) and mount Blob Storage containers by using the Network File System (NFS) 3.0 protocol. About Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Blob Storage supports Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Microsoft's enterprise big data analytics solution for the cloud. Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 offers a hierarchical file system as well as the advantages of Blob Storage, including: • Low-cost, tiered storage • High availability • Strong consistency • Disaster recovery capabilities For more information about Data Lake Storage Gen2, see Blob Storage resources Blob Storage offers three types of resources: • The storage account • A container ...