From the course: Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) Cert Prep by Microsoft Press

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 24,700 courses taught by industry experts.

Introduction to storage options

Introduction to storage options - Azure Tutorial

From the course: Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) Cert Prep by Microsoft Press

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Introduction to storage options

“

- [Instructor] When designing Azure solutions, you will need to be able to store data at some point. Azure has several options for storing data, and the choice of which depends on several different factors. The first question we need to ask ourselves when choosing the storage technologies is, what kind of data are we storing? And by this we mean are we storing structured data, semi-structured data, or unstructured data. Structured data is data that follows a strict definition or schema. This typically means information is stored in a table with columns, defining the type and size of that data. Sometimes one or more columns or tables might be linked together to form some sort of key, and this type of data would typically be stored in a SQL database, for example. Next, we have semi-structured data. Semi-structured data is similar to structured in that it is often, but doesn't have to conform to a set structure. However…

Contents