title: Azure Table Storage RetryPolicy questions
body: <p>A couple questions on using RetryPolicy with Table Storage,</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>Is it best practice to use RetryPolicy whenever you can, hence use ctx.SaveChangeWithRetries() instead of ctx.SaveChanges() accordingly whenever you can?</p></li>
  <li><p>When you do use RetryPolicy, for example, </p>
  
  <p>ctx.RetryPolicy = RetryPolicies.Retry(5, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1));</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>What values do people normally use for the retryCount and the TimeSpan?  I see 5 retries and 1 second TimeSpan are a popular choice, but would 5 retries 1 second each be too long?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you,</p>
  
  <p>Ray.</p>