One of my colleague tried implemented a browser history mechanism for MVC. Based on this data he would like to generate two simple reports: Top 5 web addresses accessed by a given user per day Top 5 web addresses accessed by all user When the data store is implemented using SQL Azure, this problem can be resolved very simple. The question that appeared here is: Can we implement a data store model using Windows Azure Table Services? I will try to propose a possible data model that is using Windows Azure Table. In the default implementation (using SQL Azure), there were 3 kind of information that is stored in the SQL tables: URL visited User Date Because we don’t have an order by, count or a max function in a query over Windows Azure Table we need to think at a model that would help us with this. We will start with the first requirement: Top 5 web addresses accessed by a given user per day To be able to solve this problem we need a data model that permit us to refe...
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