Query with no key in Table Service

Question

Hi Everybody,

I am searching for some information about the Table Service, and I have the next question:

Is possible to query for entities using a non-defined key as criterion?

Thanks for your help.

Ganchix

Answer 1

Yes, it is entire possible to query for entities on attributes other than PartitionKey and RowKey, however please keep in mind that this will result in full table scan and depending on the size of your table you may get result very late. When you don't specify any query criteria, essentially you're fetching all entities from the table.

Answer 2

Thanks for the answer

I am using API Java, how can i use the static method TableQuery.generateFilterCondition to generate the "where" string?