I want to pull large amount of data, frequently from different third party API web services and store it in a staging area (this is what I want to decide right now) from where it will be then moved one by one as required into my application's database. I wanted to know that can I use Azure platform to achieve the above? How good is it t...
Is is possible to rename an Azure Storage Blog using the Azure storage api from a Web Role? The only solution I have at the moment is to copy the blob to a new blob with the correct name and delete the old one. ...
Similar in how one would count from 0 to F in Hex, I have an array of numbers and letters I want to "count" from... and when I hit the max value, I want to start all over again in the "tens" column. I need this to increase storage efficiency in Azure Table, and to keep my PrimaryKeys tiny (so I can use them in a tinyURL). First conside...
How to retrieve thumbnail url from Azure table using LINQ query? ...
i have a some thumbnail in azure blob storage and thumbnail-URL in azure table.i want to retrieve thumbnail URL.after that,when i click on this URL it will show the full image from azure blob.anybody help me? what is the query that should i use? ...
The Azure table whitepaper mentions that the x-ms-request-id is useful to send to Microsoft in the event there is an error working with the data. If I do have such an error, I'd like my try...catch block to take this and save it somewhere for future analysis. How do I extract this information and have it available when the Exception co...
I have a Webrole that is updating Azure Table storage, and I'd like to force Fiddler to see it. What needs to be done to make this happen? ...
Hello, After looking at this tutorial on blobs: channel 9, I was thinking of using a blob container to save a bunch of tweets (storing the json of each tweet that is). Ideally I would like to create a blob reference for each hour of the day, and append new tweets to this blob as they come in. The issue is that the method UploadText(stri...
Hi, I am trying to capture the following PerformanceCounters on the Azure WebRole: private string[] perfCounters = { @"\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time", @"\ASP.NET Applications(__Total__)\Requests/Sec", @"\Memory\Available Bytes", @"\...
Hi! I'd read many posts and articles about comparing SQL Azure and Table Service and most of them told that Table Service is more scalable than SQL Azure. http://www.silverlight-travel.com/blog/2010/03/31/azure-table-storage-sql-azure/ http://www.intertech.com/Blog/post/Windows-Azure-Table-Storage-vs-Windows-SQL-Azure.aspx http://stack...
hi, i have some image URL in azure table. i use public IEnumerable Select(string Customer_ID) { var imageDetailQuery = CloudStorageAccount.DevelopmentStorageAccount .CreateCloudTableClient() .GetDataServiceContext() .CreateQuery<GuestBookEntry>("GuestBookEntry"); var gue...
Hi, I just started playing with the Azure Library for Lucene.NET (http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/AzureDirectory). Until now, I was using my own custom code for writing lucene indexes on the azure blob. So, I was copying the blob to localstorage of the azure web/worker role and reading/writing docs to the index. I was using my custom loc...
When I run the same query multiple times against the Azure table storage, is it using caching and speeding up the subsequent queries? In other words, is it caching the HTTP response? ...
I'm trying to get some records from the Azure Table Storage while using paging with the continuation token. I have the following code: public Stories SelectStory(DateTime start, DateTime end, string searchGuid) { long startTicks = DateTime.MaxValue.Ticks - start.ToUniversalTime().Ticks; long endTicks = DateTime.MaxValue.Ticks - e...
A StorageErrorCode is included in the exception that is thrown when FetchAttributes is called on a CloudBlob that does not exist. Steve Marx suggests that a value of ResourceNotFound would indicate that the blob does not exist. What is then the relevance of the BlobNotFound value? My first thought that ResourceNotFound might cover both...
Hi Guys, I've just started a new software consultancy business and I'm currently putting together designs for my website. We will be at a stage very soon to start converting these into a template for a CMS. I have used http://n2cms.com before, but my designer has built many sites using WordPress, we recently built a site which worked v...