Learning Microsoft Azure Storage
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Table storage key points

The following tips should be considered, as they will help you when designing your storage solution using the Table storage service:

  • Table storage supports Standard Storage, but its support for Premium Storage is in preview at the time of writing
  • Table storage is significantly lower in cost than traditional SQL
  • The entity can have up to 252 custom properties, and 3 system properties (PartitionKey, RowKey, and Timestamp)
  • The entity's properties data cannot exceed 1 MB
  • Table names must follow the following rules:
    • They are case sensitive
    • They contain only alphanumeric characters, considering that they cannot begin with a numeric character
    • They cannot be redundant within the same storage account
    • You can name a table with another table name written in reverse 
    • Their length varies between 3 and 63 characters