Understand data management tools - Azure Tutorial

When you have data in storage, there's an automatic need for tools to manage it. Applications you develop and connect to storage services can manipulate data, but sometimes what you need is a more direct administrative level access to the data. Azure gives you two data management tools to leverage based on the requirement. The first one is easy AZCopy, a command line utility for managing storage. It does not have a graphical user interface. You have to type commands in the console using AZCopy and pass the appropriate parameters to perform the operations you intend to execute. Using this tool requires a little experience. I would not recommend it for an absolute beginner. It can perform crude operations like create, read, update, delete, as well as upload and transfer of storage objects. The main advantage of using a command line tool as opposed to a graphical interface is that you can write scripts to automate and scale operational tasks. You write the script once and then quickly…