# Storage Tables

This tutorial explains what is and how we can create a Storage Table in Azure.

A storage account can be of 3 types:

• General Purpose : primarily there are 4 types of storage in this account type: Tables, Blobs, Queues, File Storage
• Blob Storage : optimized for Blob operations (Block Blobs or Page Blobs)
• File shares : optimized for sharing files in a high performant environment

In order to create Storage Tables, we need to create a General Purpose storage account.

Azure Table storage stores large amounts of structured data. The service is a NoSQL datastore which accepts authenticated calls from inside and outside the Azure cloud. Azure tables are ideal for storing structured, non-relational data.

A table is a collection of entities. Tables don't enforce a schema on entities, which means a single table can contain entities that have different sets of properties.

An entity is a set of properties, similar to a database row. An entity in Azure Storage can be up to 1MB in size. An entity in Azure Cosmos DB can be up to 2MB in size.

A property is a name-value pair. Each entity can include up to 252 properties to store data. Each entity also has three system properties that specify a partition key, a row key, and a timestamp. Entities with the same partition key can be queried more quickly, and inserted/updated in atomic operations. An entity's row key is its unique identifier within a partition.

For creating a table, we can go to Azure Portal in "Storage accounts" page.

Click on Storage Account Name.

We can see what kind of data we can store in this account storage. Click on "Tables".

Click on "+ Table" button.

Enter a name for a table and click "OK" button. The new table will be created immediately.