Our Devteam is caching some data in index db.To test some scenarios we want to access this index db and modify some of its data.Is there a way we can do this like we do it for isolated storage using isolated storage explorer tool? The application is developed using HTML5 and javascript.
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is there an azure API to import/export an existing collection from Azure Table Storage in .csv?
The Table Storage REST API does not provide a response as CSV directly, so it's always necessary to transform the data accordingly, as for example the Azure Storage Explorer does using an older version of the azcopy v7.3.
I've built a little C# library that basically does the same. It currently caches all rows in memory though to create the CSV headers so that's something to be aware of.
I have a vb.net application connected with an sql server. This applications handles files.
Recently, this application connected with an sql server, which is in a VM of Azure.
My question is, how i can hanndle the files?
I want my application to upload(over internet) the files somewhere and then server side to haddle where these files will be saved. And the opposite.
Can you tell me what options i have? I don't want OneDrive.
Depending on the kinds of files you store and the way your application handles them, you have multiple options with Azure. These are Azure Blob Storage ( with blob types: Block, Append, and Page), Azure Files, or Azure Data Lake Store.
Azure Blob Storage:
The following blob types are great of your data is unstructured.
Block Blobs: for use of binary data or text. You store in blocks that can be manged.
Page Blobs: to store random access files, good for storing VHDs that are backing up VMs.
Append Blobs: similar to block blobs but are append-only and optimized for append-only workloads. Good for storing log files storage.
If you handle files using native file systems APIs and want to "lift and shift" your application as is, Azure Files might be your best option which uses the SMB protocol.
Another option you might want to try, which is in preview (not generally available yet ) is Azure Data Lake Store Gen 2 which allows you to interact with Azure Blob storage through a file system interface.
From the way you describe your application, I doubt you want to use Azure Disks service. Here is a comparison table to help you decide: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-decide-blobs-files-disks?toc=%2fazure%2fstorage%2fblobs%2ftoc.json
I'm building a website to keep track of devices within my company. I was planning to keep everything "On The Cloud". I would have all the details on MS Access and store it on One Drive. I wanted to take the data from the OneDrive file, display it on the website and have the ability to edit it and save it.
Only thing is, I don't know how. Any suggestions?
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Have you considered the free tier of Azure App Service? Assuming you can fit your app and data into a 1 GB of space, you can get up to 10 apps for free at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/app-service/
It even supports PHP, and you could stuff the Access DB into the data directory side by side on the same disk... Alternatively, you could scale into SQLite, or even a low end SQL Server DB side by side with the web app...
I'm about to develop a access control scheme for my new app, and because:
this app will be deployed on azure
I have managed not to use SQL so far
table storage is cheaper
table storage performance is good enough for me
I was wondering if there's a algorithm/scheme/"general implementation"/design that better leverages the power of table storage to handle ACL based authorization...
PS: I do know how to implement a ACL based authorization using traditional SQL...
i want to develop a wp7 application that can store geospatial data and pictures in an azure database.
does anyone have an idea on how to do this? Do i use blobs?
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There are a couple of codeplex and Microsoft projects that will help you
Firstly this community quick start - http://wp7azurequickstarts.codeplex.com/
Secondly the official toolkit - http://watoolkitwp7.codeplex.com/
There is a walkthrough which shows how MS recommend you upload photos to blob storage - http://watoolkitwp7.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Running%20and%20Going%20Through%20the%20Windows%20Phone%207%20Cloud%20Application
The basic structure you use is:
a service which your app can call in Azure compute
that service can then store things in Blob, Table or SQL storage - most likely it will
store images in Blob
store index information in SQL (or maybe in table)
Note that while the app itself could upload direct to Azure Blob storage, this would most likely require you to distribute your secret private keys along with the app - which wouldn't be a good thing to do. If you did want to optimise the communications in you application, then you could implement a direct upload to blob using a shared access key retrieved from your Azure service (but I think this is only a small optimisation)