I watched a few videos. I found that Windows Azure will group the drops into partitions based on the partition key and automatically download these partitions on their servers. The section key for blob is the name of the blob. Using the name blob, azure will automatically partition.
Now, my question is: can I make azure do partitions based on the name of the container. I wanted my section key to be the name of the container.
For example, I have a storage account. In this case, I have 2 containers named container1 and container2 . In container 1 there are 1000 files with the name 1.txt, 2.txt, 3.txt, ......., 501.txt, 502.txt, ..... 999.txt, 1000. txt , and in container2 there are 1000 more files with the name 1001.txt, 1002.txt, 1003.txt, ......., 1501.txt, 1502.txt, ..... 1999.txt, 2000.txt
Now, will Windows Azure generate 2,000 partitions based on the blob name and serve me across multiple servers ???
Isn't it better if Azure partitions are based on the container name? container1 on one server and conatiner2 on another.
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