Best Practices for Storing entity pointers (foreign keys) in Azure Table Storage

Question

Azure Table Storage lets you look up an entity using Table Name, Partition Key, and Row Key.

But if I'm storing a pointer to one entity in another entity (i.e. a foreign key in rdb terms), is the best way to do that to concatenate those 3 values, or is there a more direct way of saying "this other entity exists here"? Like a URI that permanently points to the entity's location?

I'm 90% sure the answer IS no but 100% wishing it WERE yes.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You could use the URL if you wanted to, but it's not very different from concatenating the table name, partition key, and row key. (The URL also includes the account name, but otherwise it's just a simple formatting of those three pieces of information.)