Box 1: Yes -
Create a table.
A CloudTableClient object lets you get reference objects for tables and entities. The following code creates a CloudTableClient object and uses it to create a new
CloudTable object, which represents a table
// Retrieve storage account from connection-string.
CloudStorageAccount storageAccount =
CloudStorageAccount.parse(storageConnectionString);
// Create the table client.
CloudTableClient tableClient = storageAccount.createCloudTableClient();
// Create the table if it doesn't exist.
String tableName = "people";
CloudTable cloudTable = tableClient.getTableReference(tableName); cloudTable.createIfNotExists();
Box 2: No -
New records are inserted with TableOperation.insert. Old records are not updated.
To update old records TableOperation.insertOrReplace should be used instead.
Box 3: No -
Box 4: Yes -
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/table-storage-how-to-use-java
