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Windows Azure Storage Resources
The following are some key resources to understand and use Windows Azure Storage. The online MSDN documentation and Forums:Windows Azure Storage Client Library (Blobs, Drives, Tables, Queues)Windows...
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Windows Azure Storage Explorers
We get a few queries every now and then on the availability of utilities for Windows Azure Storage and decided to put together a list of the storage explorers we know of. The tools are all Windows...
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SaveChangesWithRetries and Batch Option
The issue is resolved in the Windows Azure SDK 1.3 release which can be downloaded here.We recently found that there is a bug in our SaveChangesWithRetries method that takes in the SaveChangesOptions...
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Protecting Your Tables Against Application Errors
“Do applications need to backup data in Windows Azure Storage if Windows Azure Storage already stores multiple replicas of the data?” For business continuity, it can be important to protect the data...
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WCF Data Service Asynchronous Issue when using Windows Azure Tables from SDK...
The issue is resolved in the latest version of the Windows Azure SDK which can be downloaded here. We have received a few reports of problems when using the following APIs in Windows Azure Storage...
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Nagle’s Algorithm is Not Friendly towards Small Requests
We had recommended in a forum post about how turning off Nagling can greatly improve throughput for Table Inserts and Updates. We have also been seeing a lot of improvement when application deals with...
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How WCF Data Service Changes in OS 1.4 Affects Windows Azure Table Clients
The release of Guest OS 1.4 contains an update to .NET 3.5 SP1 which contains some bug fixes to WCF Data Services. We have received some feedback on backward compatibility issues in Windows Azure...
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How to get most out of Windows Azure Tables
IntroductionWindows Azure Storage is a scalable and durable cloud storage system in which applications can store data and access it from anywhere and at any time. Windows Azure Storage provides a rich...
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Windows Azure Tables: Introducing Upsert and Query Projection
As part of the “2011-08-18” version, two Windows Azure Table features were introduced; Upsert, represented by the InsertOrReplace Entity and InserOrMerge Entity APIs, and Query Projection.In this...
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Windows Azure Storage Client for Java Tables Deep Dive
This blog post serves as an overview to the recently released Windows Azure Storage Client for Java which includes support for the Azure Table Service. Azure Tables is a NoSQL datastore. For detailed...
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PartitionKey or RowKey containing the percent ‘%’ character causes some...
Description and SymptomsWe have identified an issue that would affect services using Windows Azure Tables whenever the percent character ‘%’ appears as part of the PartitionKey or RowKey.The affected...
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Windows Azure Tables Breaking Changes (November 2013)
In preparation for adding JSON support to Windows Azure Tables, we are pushing an update that introduces a few breaking changes for Windows Azure Tables. We strive hard to preserve backward...
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AzCopy - Introducing Append Blob, File Storage Asynchronous Copying, File...
We are pleased to announce that AzCopy 3.2.0 and AzCopy 4.2.0-preview are now released! These two releases introduce the following new features:Append BlobAppend Blob is a new Microsoft Azure Storage...
View Article(Cross-Post) Introducing Azure Storage Data Movement Library Preview
Since AzCopy was first released, a large number of customers have requested programmatic access to AzCopy. We are pleased to announce a new open-sourced Azure Storage data movement library for .NET...
View ArticleHow to use Blob Storage from iOS
Please refer to our latest documentation to learn how to use Blob Storage from iOS. Microsoft Azure Storage Team
View ArticleClient-Side Encryption in Java Client Library for Microsoft Azure Storage –...
We are excited to announce preview availability of the client side encryption feature in the Azure Storage Java Client Library. This preview enables you to encrypt and decrypt your data inside client...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure Storage Service Version Removal Update: Extension to 2016
Summary The Storage Service uses versioning to govern what operations are available, how a given request will be processed and what will be returned. In 2014, we announced that specific versions of the...
View Article(Cross-Post) SAS Update: Account SAS Now Supports All Storage Services
Shared Access Signatures (SAS) enable customers to delegate access rights to data within their storage accounts without having to share their storage account keys. In late 2015 we announced a new type...
View Article(Cross-Post) Announcing Azure Storage Data Movement Library 0.2.0
In the previous announcement post for DMLib 0.1.0, we committed that the newest release of the Data Movement Library would support more advanced features. Great news, those are now available and...
View Article(Cross-Post) Build 2016: Azure Storage announcements
It’s time for Build 2016, and the Azure Storage team has several exciting announcements to make. This blog post provides an overview of new announcements and updates on existing programs. We hope that...
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