File-copy utility for Windows over SMB, used to move data onto an Azure file share that has been mounted. It cannot authenticate with a SAS or work with blob containers.
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Terms in this definition
- OVER
Gives a T-SQL window function its window: PARTITION BY, ORDER BY and, if wanted, a ROWS or RANGE frame. Rankings and running totals can then be worked out while every row is kept.
- SMB
Protocol for Windows file shares, used by Azure Files and supporting authentication based on identity.
- File share
Created within a storage account, an Azure Files share works like a shared drive on an office network: clients connect to it using NFS or SMB.
- Serial Attached SCSI
SAS for short: the interface typically found on server drives and shared JBOD enclosures; Storage Spaces handles it alongside NVMe and SATA. Don't mix it up with Azure's shared access signatures.
- BLOB
Short for binary large object: raw binary data, like pictures, audio, video or documents, that only an application can make sense of. Azure keeps these files as blobs in Blob Storage.