This has been requested, but I felt it wasn't presented in the best (most forceful?) way. Azure Table Storage is for PETAbytes of structured data according to your own marketing material. If you do...
The ability to provide a $filter or $select (or both) to a table storage query is essential to reduce the amount of data synced significantly eg: $select=PartitionKey,RowKey,Timestamp,Field1,Field2,Field3&$top=1000&$filter=(RowKey ge 'Example' and RowKey lt 'Example~') or (RowKey ge 'Value' and RowKey lt 'Value~')
