How to Delete an Entire Azure Table in One Command

1. How to delete an entire Azure table is quite easy.
2. I get this question quite often. I normally would not create such a simple post.
1. Most developers think they need to delete rows, one row at a time.
2. But that isn't true.
3. There is support for deleting a whole table.
4. Here is the REST-based approach
   • http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dd179387.aspx
5. Here is the approach using the .NET libraries
   • http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/how-to-guides/table-services/#delete-table

// Retrieve storage account from connection string
CloudStorageAccount storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(
    CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("StorageConnectionString"));
  
// Create the table client
CloudTableClient tableClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudTableClient();
  
// Delete the table it if exists
tableClient.DeleteTableIfExist("people");