Microsoft.Sql servers/databases 2023-05-01-preview

Bicep resource definition

The servers/databases resource type can be deployed with operations that target:

For a list of changed properties in each API version, see change log.

Resource format

To create a Microsoft.Sql/servers/databases resource, add the following Bicep to your template.

resource symbolicname 'Microsoft.Sql/servers/databases@2023-05-01-preview' = {
  name: 'string'
  location: 'string'
  tags: {
    tagName1: 'tagValue1'
    tagName2: 'tagValue2'
  }
  sku: {
    capacity: int
    family: 'string'
    name: 'string'
    size: 'string'
    tier: 'string'
  }
  parent: resourceSymbolicName
  identity: {
    type: 'string'
    userAssignedIdentities: {
      {customized property}: {}
    }
  }
  properties: {
    autoPauseDelay: int
    availabilityZone: 'string'
    catalogCollation: 'string'
    collation: 'string'
    createMode: 'string'
    elasticPoolId: 'string'
    encryptionProtector: 'string'
    encryptionProtectorAutoRotation: bool
    federatedClientId: 'string'
    freeLimitExhaustionBehavior: 'string'
    highAvailabilityReplicaCount: int
    isLedgerOn: bool
    keys: {
      {customized property}: {}
    }
    licenseType: 'string'
    longTermRetentionBackupResourceId: 'string'
    maintenanceConfigurationId: 'string'
    manualCutover: bool
    maxSizeBytes: int
    minCapacity: json('decimal-as-string')
    performCutover: bool
    preferredEnclaveType: 'string'
    readScale: 'string'
    recoverableDatabaseId: 'string'
    recoveryServicesRecoveryPointId: 'string'
    requestedBackupStorageRedundancy: 'string'
    restorableDroppedDatabaseId: 'string'
    restorePointInTime: 'string'
    sampleName: 'string'
    secondaryType: 'string'
    sourceDatabaseDeletionDate: 'string'
    sourceDatabaseId: 'string'
    sourceResourceId: 'string'
    useFreeLimit: bool
    zoneRedundant: bool
  }
}

Property values

servers/databases

Name Description Value
name The resource name

See how to set names and types for child resources in Bicep.
string (required)

Character limit: 1-128

Valid characters:
Can't use:
<>*%&:\/? or control characters

Can't end with period or space.
location Resource location. string (required)
tags Resource tags. Dictionary of tag names and values. See Tags in templates
sku The database SKU.

The list of SKUs may vary by region and support offer. To determine the SKUs (including the SKU name, tier/edition, family, and capacity) that are available to your subscription in an Azure region, use the Capabilities_ListByLocation REST API or one of the following commands:

Azure CLI:
az sql db list-editions -l {location} -o table



Azure PowerShell:
Get-AzSqlServerServiceObjective -Location {location}

Sku
parent In Bicep, you can specify the parent resource for a child resource. You only need to add this property when the child resource is declared outside of the parent resource.

For more information, see Child resource outside parent resource.
Symbolic name for resource of type: servers
identity The Azure Active Directory identity of the database. DatabaseIdentity
properties Resource properties. DatabaseProperties

DatabaseIdentity

Name Description Value
type The identity type 'None'
'UserAssigned'
userAssignedIdentities The resource ids of the user assigned identities to use DatabaseIdentityUserAssignedIdentities

DatabaseIdentityUserAssignedIdentities

Name Description Value
{customized property} DatabaseUserIdentity

DatabaseUserIdentity

This object doesn't contain any properties to set during deployment. All properties are ReadOnly.

DatabaseProperties

Name Description Value
autoPauseDelay Time in minutes after which database is automatically paused. A value of -1 means that automatic pause is disabled int
availabilityZone Specifies the availability zone the database is pinned to. '1'
'2'
'3'
'NoPreference'
catalogCollation Collation of the metadata catalog. 'DATABASE_DEFAULT'
'SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS'
collation The collation of the database. string
createMode Specifies the mode of database creation.

Default: regular database creation.

Copy: creates a database as a copy of an existing database. sourceDatabaseId must be specified as the resource ID of the source database.

Secondary: creates a database as a secondary replica of an existing database. sourceDatabaseId must be specified as the resource ID of the existing primary database.

PointInTimeRestore: Creates a database by restoring a point in time backup of an existing database. sourceDatabaseId must be specified as the resource ID of the existing database, and restorePointInTime must be specified.

Recovery: Creates a database by restoring a geo-replicated backup. sourceDatabaseId must be specified as the recoverable database resource ID to restore.

Restore: Creates a database by restoring a backup of a deleted database. sourceDatabaseId must be specified. If sourceDatabaseId is the database's original resource ID, then sourceDatabaseDeletionDate must be specified. Otherwise sourceDatabaseId must be the restorable dropped database resource ID and sourceDatabaseDeletionDate is ignored. restorePointInTime may also be specified to restore from an earlier point in time.

RestoreLongTermRetentionBackup: Creates a database by restoring from a long term retention vault. recoveryServicesRecoveryPointResourceId must be specified as the recovery point resource ID.

Copy, Secondary, and RestoreLongTermRetentionBackup are not supported for DataWarehouse edition.
'Copy'
'Default'
'OnlineSecondary'
'PointInTimeRestore'
'Recovery'
'Restore'
'RestoreExternalBackup'
'RestoreExternalBackupSecondary'
'RestoreLongTermRetentionBackup'
'Secondary'
elasticPoolId The resource identifier of the elastic pool containing this database. string
encryptionProtector The azure key vault URI of the database if it's configured with per Database Customer Managed Keys. string
encryptionProtectorAutoRotation The flag to enable or disable auto rotation of database encryption protector AKV key. bool
federatedClientId The Client id used for cross tenant per database CMK scenario string

Constraints:
Min length = 36
Max length = 36
Pattern = ^[0-9a-fA-F]{8}-([0-9a-fA-F]{4}-){3}[0-9a-fA-F]{12}$
freeLimitExhaustionBehavior Specifies the behavior when monthly free limits are exhausted for the free database.

AutoPause: The database will be auto paused upon exhaustion of free limits for remainder of the month.

BillForUsage: The database will continue to be online upon exhaustion of free limits and any overage will be billed.
'AutoPause'
'BillOverUsage'
highAvailabilityReplicaCount The number of secondary replicas associated with the database that are used to provide high availability. Not applicable to a Hyperscale database within an elastic pool. int
isLedgerOn Whether or not this database is a ledger database, which means all tables in the database are ledger tables. Note: the value of this property cannot be changed after the database has been created. bool
keys The resource ids of the user assigned identities to use DatabasePropertiesKeys
licenseType The license type to apply for this database. LicenseIncluded if you need a license, or BasePrice if you have a license and are eligible for the Azure Hybrid Benefit. 'BasePrice'
'LicenseIncluded'
longTermRetentionBackupResourceId The resource identifier of the long term retention backup associated with create operation of this database. string
maintenanceConfigurationId Maintenance configuration id assigned to the database. This configuration defines the period when the maintenance updates will occur. string
manualCutover Whether or not customer controlled manual cutover needs to be done during Update Database operation to Hyperscale tier.

This property is only applicable when scaling database from Business Critical/General Purpose/Premium/Standard tier to Hyperscale tier.

When manualCutover is specified, the scaling operation will wait for user input to trigger cutover to Hyperscale database.

To trigger cutover, please provide 'performCutover' parameter when the Scaling operation is in Waiting state.
bool
maxSizeBytes The max size of the database expressed in bytes. int
minCapacity Minimal capacity that database will always have allocated, if not paused To specify a decimal value, use the json() function. int or json decimal
performCutover To trigger customer controlled manual cutover during the wait state while Scaling operation is in progress.

This property parameter is only applicable for scaling operations that are initiated along with 'manualCutover' parameter.

This property is only applicable when scaling database from Business Critical/General Purpose/Premium/Standard tier to Hyperscale tier is already in progress.

When performCutover is specified, the scaling operation will trigger cutover and perform role-change to Hyperscale database.
bool
preferredEnclaveType Type of enclave requested on the database i.e. Default or VBS enclaves. 'Default'
'VBS'
readScale The state of read-only routing. If enabled, connections that have application intent set to readonly in their connection string may be routed to a readonly secondary replica in the same region. Not applicable to a Hyperscale database within an elastic pool. 'Disabled'
'Enabled'
recoverableDatabaseId The resource identifier of the recoverable database associated with create operation of this database. string
recoveryServicesRecoveryPointId The resource identifier of the recovery point associated with create operation of this database. string
requestedBackupStorageRedundancy The storage account type to be used to store backups for this database. 'Geo'
'GeoZone'
'Local'
'Zone'
restorableDroppedDatabaseId The resource identifier of the restorable dropped database associated with create operation of this database. string
restorePointInTime Specifies the point in time (ISO8601 format) of the source database that will be restored to create the new database. string
sampleName The name of the sample schema to apply when creating this database. 'AdventureWorksLT'
'WideWorldImportersFull'
'WideWorldImportersStd'
secondaryType The secondary type of the database if it is a secondary. Valid values are Geo, Named and Standby. 'Geo'
'Named'
'Standby'
sourceDatabaseDeletionDate Specifies the time that the database was deleted. string
sourceDatabaseId The resource identifier of the source database associated with create operation of this database. string
sourceResourceId The resource identifier of the source associated with the create operation of this database.

This property is only supported for DataWarehouse edition and allows to restore across subscriptions.

When sourceResourceId is specified, sourceDatabaseId, recoverableDatabaseId, restorableDroppedDatabaseId and sourceDatabaseDeletionDate must not be specified and CreateMode must be PointInTimeRestore, Restore or Recover.

When createMode is PointInTimeRestore, sourceResourceId must be the resource ID of the existing database or existing sql pool, and restorePointInTime must be specified.

When createMode is Restore, sourceResourceId must be the resource ID of restorable dropped database or restorable dropped sql pool.

When createMode is Recover, sourceResourceId must be the resource ID of recoverable database or recoverable sql pool.

When source subscription belongs to a different tenant than target subscription, “x-ms-authorization-auxiliary” header must contain authentication token for the source tenant. For more details about “x-ms-authorization-auxiliary” header see /azure/azure-resource-manager/management/authenticate-multi-tenant
string
useFreeLimit Whether or not the database uses free monthly limits. Allowed on one database in a subscription. bool
zoneRedundant Whether or not this database is zone redundant, which means the replicas of this database will be spread across multiple availability zones. bool

DatabasePropertiesKeys

Name Description Value
{customized property} DatabaseKey

DatabaseKey

This object doesn't contain any properties to set during deployment. All properties are ReadOnly.

Sku

Name Description Value
capacity Capacity of the particular SKU. int
family If the service has different generations of hardware, for the same SKU, then that can be captured here. string
name The name of the SKU, typically, a letter + Number code, e.g. P3. string (required)
size Size of the particular SKU string
tier The tier or edition of the particular SKU, e.g. Basic, Premium. string

Quickstart templates

The following quickstart templates deploy this resource type.

Template Description
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EPiserverCMS in Azure

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Deploy to Azure
This template allows you to deploy a single Octopus Deploy 3.0 server with a trial license. This will deploy on a single Windows Server 2012R2 VM (Standard D2) and SQL DB (S1 tier) into the location specified for the Resource Group.
Orchard CMS Video Portal Web App

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Scalable Umbraco CMS Web App

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This template provides a easy way to deploy umbraco CMS web app on Azure App Service Web Apps.
Simple Umbraco CMS Web App

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Enterprise Governance-AppService, SQL DB, AD, OMS, Runbooks

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Web App with a SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Search

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Deploy to Azure
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HDInsight with custom Ambari + Hive Metastore DB in VNET

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ARM template resource definition

The servers/databases resource type can be deployed with operations that target:

For a list of changed properties in each API version, see change log.

Resource format

To create a Microsoft.Sql/servers/databases resource, add the following JSON to your template.

{
  "type": "Microsoft.Sql/servers/databases",
  "apiVersion": "2023-05-01-preview",
  "name": "string",
  "location": "string",
  "tags": {
    "tagName1": "tagValue1",
    "tagName2": "tagValue2"
  },
  "sku": {
    "capacity": "int",
    "family": "string",
    "name": "string",
    "size": "string",
    "tier": "string"
  },
  "identity": {
    "type": "string",
    "userAssignedIdentities": {
      "{customized property}": {}
    }
  },
  "properties": {
    "autoPauseDelay": "int",
    "availabilityZone": "string",
    "catalogCollation": "string",
    "collation": "string",
    "createMode": "string",
    "elasticPoolId": "string",
    "encryptionProtector": "string",
    "encryptionProtectorAutoRotation": "bool",
    "federatedClientId": "string",
    "freeLimitExhaustionBehavior": "string",
    "highAvailabilityReplicaCount": "int",
    "isLedgerOn": "bool",
    "keys": {
      "{customized property}": {}
    },
    "licenseType": "string",
    "longTermRetentionBackupResourceId": "string",
    "maintenanceConfigurationId": "string",
    "manualCutover": "bool",
    "maxSizeBytes": "int",
    "minCapacity": "[json('decimal-as-string')]",
    "performCutover": "bool",
    "preferredEnclaveType": "string",
    "readScale": "string",
    "recoverableDatabaseId": "string",
    "recoveryServicesRecoveryPointId": "string",
    "requestedBackupStorageRedundancy": "string",
    "restorableDroppedDatabaseId": "string",
    "restorePointInTime": "string",
    "sampleName": "string",
    "secondaryType": "string",
    "sourceDatabaseDeletionDate": "string",
    "sourceDatabaseId": "string",
    "sourceResourceId": "string",
    "useFreeLimit": "bool",
    "zoneRedundant": "bool"
  }
}

Property values

servers/databases

Name Description Value
type The resource type 'Microsoft.Sql/servers/databases'
apiVersion The resource api version '2023-05-01-preview'
name The resource name

See how to set names and types for child resources in JSON ARM templates.
string (required)

Character limit: 1-128

Valid characters:
Can't use:
<>*%&:\/? or control characters

Can't end with period or space.
location Resource location. string (required)
tags Resource tags. Dictionary of tag names and values. See Tags in templates
sku The database SKU.

The list of SKUs may vary by region and support offer. To determine the SKUs (including the SKU name, tier/edition, family, and capacity) that are available to your subscription in an Azure region, use the Capabilities_ListByLocation REST API or one of the following commands:

Azure CLI:
az sql db list-editions -l {location} -o table



Azure PowerShell:
Get-AzSqlServerServiceObjective -Location {location}

Sku
identity The Azure Active Directory identity of the database. DatabaseIdentity
properties Resource properties. DatabaseProperties

DatabaseIdentity

Name Description Value
type The identity type 'None'
'UserAssigned'
userAssignedIdentities The resource ids of the user assigned identities to use DatabaseIdentityUserAssignedIdentities

DatabaseIdentityUserAssignedIdentities

Name Description Value
{customized property} DatabaseUserIdentity

DatabaseUserIdentity

This object doesn't contain any properties to set during deployment. All properties are ReadOnly.

DatabaseProperties

Name Description Value
autoPauseDelay Time in minutes after which database is automatically paused. A value of -1 means that automatic pause is disabled int
availabilityZone Specifies the availability zone the database is pinned to. '1'
'2'
'3'
'NoPreference'
catalogCollation Collation of the metadata catalog. 'DATABASE_DEFAULT'
'SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS'
collation The collation of the database. string
createMode Specifies the mode of database creation.

Default: regular database creation.

Copy: creates a database as a copy of an existing database. sourceDatabaseId must be specified as the resource ID of the source database.

Secondary: creates a database as a secondary replica of an existing database. sourceDatabaseId must be specified as the resource ID of the existing primary database.

PointInTimeRestore: Creates a database by restoring a point in time backup of an existing database. sourceDatabaseId must be specified as the resource ID of the existing database, and restorePointInTime must be specified.

Recovery: Creates a database by restoring a geo-replicated backup. sourceDatabaseId must be specified as the recoverable database resource ID to restore.

Restore: Creates a database by restoring a backup of a deleted database. sourceDatabaseId must be specified. If sourceDatabaseId is the database's original resource ID, then sourceDatabaseDeletionDate must be specified. Otherwise sourceDatabaseId must be the restorable dropped database resource ID and sourceDatabaseDeletionDate is ignored. restorePointInTime may also be specified to restore from an earlier point in time.

RestoreLongTermRetentionBackup: Creates a database by restoring from a long term retention vault. recoveryServicesRecoveryPointResourceId must be specified as the recovery point resource ID.

Copy, Secondary, and RestoreLongTermRetentionBackup are not supported for DataWarehouse edition.
'Copy'
'Default'
'OnlineSecondary'
'PointInTimeRestore'
'Recovery'
'Restore'
'RestoreExternalBackup'
'RestoreExternalBackupSecondary'
'RestoreLongTermRetentionBackup'
'Secondary'
elasticPoolId The resource identifier of the elastic pool containing this database. string
encryptionProtector The azure key vault URI of the database if it's configured with per Database Customer Managed Keys. string
encryptionProtectorAutoRotation The flag to enable or disable auto rotation of database encryption protector AKV key. bool
federatedClientId The Client id used for cross tenant per database CMK scenario string

Constraints:
Min length = 36
Max length = 36
Pattern = ^[0-9a-fA-F]{8}-([0-9a-fA-F]{4}-){3}[0-9a-fA-F]{12}$
freeLimitExhaustionBehavior Specifies the behavior when monthly free limits are exhausted for the free database.

AutoPause: The database will be auto paused upon exhaustion of free limits for remainder of the month.

BillForUsage: The database will continue to be online upon exhaustion of free limits and any overage will be billed.
'AutoPause'
'BillOverUsage'
highAvailabilityReplicaCount The number of secondary replicas associated with the database that are used to provide high availability. Not applicable to a Hyperscale database within an elastic pool. int
isLedgerOn Whether or not this database is a ledger database, which means all tables in the database are ledger tables. Note: the value of this property cannot be changed after the database has been created. bool
keys The resource ids of the user assigned identities to use DatabasePropertiesKeys
licenseType The license type to apply for this database. LicenseIncluded if you need a license, or BasePrice if you have a license and are eligible for the Azure Hybrid Benefit. 'BasePrice'
'LicenseIncluded'
longTermRetentionBackupResourceId The resource identifier of the long term retention backup associated with create operation of this database. string
maintenanceConfigurationId Maintenance configuration id assigned to the database. This configuration defines the period when the maintenance updates will occur. string
manualCutover Whether or not customer controlled manual cutover needs to be done during Update Database operation to Hyperscale tier.

This property is only applicable when scaling database from Business Critical/General Purpose/Premium/Standard tier to Hyperscale tier.

When manualCutover is specified, the scaling operation will wait for user input to trigger cutover to Hyperscale database.

To trigger cutover, please provide 'performCutover' parameter when the Scaling operation is in Waiting state.
bool
maxSizeBytes The max size of the database expressed in bytes. int
minCapacity Minimal capacity that database will always have allocated, if not paused To specify a decimal value, use the json() function. int or json decimal
performCutover To trigger customer controlled manual cutover during the wait state while Scaling operation is in progress.

This property parameter is only applicable for scaling operations that are initiated along with 'manualCutover' parameter.

This property is only applicable when scaling database from Business Critical/General Purpose/Premium/Standard tier to Hyperscale tier is already in progress.

When performCutover is specified, the scaling operation will trigger cutover and perform role-change to Hyperscale database.
bool
preferredEnclaveType Type of enclave requested on the database i.e. Default or VBS enclaves. 'Default'
'VBS'
readScale The state of read-only routing. If enabled, connections that have application intent set to readonly in their connection string may be routed to a readonly secondary replica in the same region. Not applicable to a Hyperscale database within an elastic pool. 'Disabled'
'Enabled'
recoverableDatabaseId The resource identifier of the recoverable database associated with create operation of this database. string
recoveryServicesRecoveryPointId The resource identifier of the recovery point associated with create operation of this database. string
requestedBackupStorageRedundancy The storage account type to be used to store backups for this database. 'Geo'
'GeoZone'
'Local'
'Zone'
restorableDroppedDatabaseId The resource identifier of the restorable dropped database associated with create operation of this database. string
restorePointInTime Specifies the point in time (ISO8601 format) of the source database that will be restored to create the new database. string
sampleName The name of the sample schema to apply when creating this database. 'AdventureWorksLT'
'WideWorldImportersFull'
'WideWorldImportersStd'
secondaryType The secondary type of the database if it is a secondary. Valid values are Geo, Named and Standby. 'Geo'
'Named'
'Standby'
sourceDatabaseDeletionDate Specifies the time that the database was deleted. string
sourceDatabaseId The resource identifier of the source database associated with create operation of this database. string
sourceResourceId The resource identifier of the source associated with the create operation of this database.

This property is only supported for DataWarehouse edition and allows to restore across subscriptions.

When sourceResourceId is specified, sourceDatabaseId, recoverableDatabaseId, restorableDroppedDatabaseId and sourceDatabaseDeletionDate must not be specified and CreateMode must be PointInTimeRestore, Restore or Recover.

When createMode is PointInTimeRestore, sourceResourceId must be the resource ID of the existing database or existing sql pool, and restorePointInTime must be specified.

When createMode is Restore, sourceResourceId must be the resource ID of restorable dropped database or restorable dropped sql pool.

When createMode is Recover, sourceResourceId must be the resource ID of recoverable database or recoverable sql pool.

When source subscription belongs to a different tenant than target subscription, “x-ms-authorization-auxiliary” header must contain authentication token for the source tenant. For more details about “x-ms-authorization-auxiliary” header see /azure/azure-resource-manager/management/authenticate-multi-tenant
string
useFreeLimit Whether or not the database uses free monthly limits. Allowed on one database in a subscription. bool
zoneRedundant Whether or not this database is zone redundant, which means the replicas of this database will be spread across multiple availability zones. bool

DatabasePropertiesKeys

Name Description Value
{customized property} DatabaseKey

DatabaseKey

This object doesn't contain any properties to set during deployment. All properties are ReadOnly.

Sku

Name Description Value
capacity Capacity of the particular SKU. int
family If the service has different generations of hardware, for the same SKU, then that can be captured here. string
name The name of the SKU, typically, a letter + Number code, e.g. P3. string (required)
size Size of the particular SKU string
tier The tier or edition of the particular SKU, e.g. Basic, Premium. string

Quickstart templates

The following quickstart templates deploy this resource type.

Template Description
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Terraform (AzAPI provider) resource definition

The servers/databases resource type can be deployed with operations that target:

  • Resource groups

For a list of changed properties in each API version, see change log.

Resource format

To create a Microsoft.Sql/servers/databases resource, add the following Terraform to your template.

resource "azapi_resource" "symbolicname" {
  type = "Microsoft.Sql/servers/databases@2023-05-01-preview"
  name = "string"
  location = "string"
  parent_id = "string"
  tags = {
    tagName1 = "tagValue1"
    tagName2 = "tagValue2"
  }
  identity {
    type =  "UserAssigned"
    identity_ids = []
  }
  body = jsonencode({
    properties = {
      autoPauseDelay = int
      availabilityZone = "string"
      catalogCollation = "string"
      collation = "string"
      createMode = "string"
      elasticPoolId = "string"
      encryptionProtector = "string"
      encryptionProtectorAutoRotation = bool
      federatedClientId = "string"
      freeLimitExhaustionBehavior = "string"
      highAvailabilityReplicaCount = int
      isLedgerOn = bool
      keys = {
        {customized property} = {}
      }
      licenseType = "string"
      longTermRetentionBackupResourceId = "string"
      maintenanceConfigurationId = "string"
      manualCutover = bool
      maxSizeBytes = int
      minCapacity = "decimal-as-string"
      performCutover = bool
      preferredEnclaveType = "string"
      readScale = "string"
      recoverableDatabaseId = "string"
      recoveryServicesRecoveryPointId = "string"
      requestedBackupStorageRedundancy = "string"
      restorableDroppedDatabaseId = "string"
      restorePointInTime = "string"
      sampleName = "string"
      secondaryType = "string"
      sourceDatabaseDeletionDate = "string"
      sourceDatabaseId = "string"
      sourceResourceId = "string"
      useFreeLimit = bool
      zoneRedundant = bool
    }
    sku = {
      capacity = int
      family = "string"
      name = "string"
      size = "string"
      tier = "string"
    }
  })
}

Property values

servers/databases

Name Description Value
type The resource type "Microsoft.Sql/servers/databases@2023-05-01-preview"
name The resource name string (required)

Character limit: 1-128

Valid characters:
Can't use:
<>*%&:\/? or control characters

Can't end with period or space.
location Resource location. string (required)
parent_id The ID of the resource that is the parent for this resource. ID for resource of type: servers
tags Resource tags. Dictionary of tag names and values.
sku The database SKU.

The list of SKUs may vary by region and support offer. To determine the SKUs (including the SKU name, tier/edition, family, and capacity) that are available to your subscription in an Azure region, use the Capabilities_ListByLocation REST API or one of the following commands:

Azure CLI:
az sql db list-editions -l {location} -o table



Azure PowerShell:
Get-AzSqlServerServiceObjective -Location {location}

Sku
identity The Azure Active Directory identity of the database. DatabaseIdentity
properties Resource properties. DatabaseProperties

DatabaseIdentity

Name Description Value
type The identity type "UserAssigned"
identity_ids The resource ids of the user assigned identities to use Array of user identity IDs.

DatabaseIdentityUserAssignedIdentities

Name Description Value
{customized property} DatabaseUserIdentity

DatabaseUserIdentity

This object doesn't contain any properties to set during deployment. All properties are ReadOnly.

DatabaseProperties

Name Description Value
autoPauseDelay Time in minutes after which database is automatically paused. A value of -1 means that automatic pause is disabled int
availabilityZone Specifies the availability zone the database is pinned to. "1"
"2"
"3"
"NoPreference"
catalogCollation Collation of the metadata catalog. "DATABASE_DEFAULT"
"SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS"
collation The collation of the database. string
createMode Specifies the mode of database creation.

Default: regular database creation.

Copy: creates a database as a copy of an existing database. sourceDatabaseId must be specified as the resource ID of the source database.

Secondary: creates a database as a secondary replica of an existing database. sourceDatabaseId must be specified as the resource ID of the existing primary database.

PointInTimeRestore: Creates a database by restoring a point in time backup of an existing database. sourceDatabaseId must be specified as the resource ID of the existing database, and restorePointInTime must be specified.

Recovery: Creates a database by restoring a geo-replicated backup. sourceDatabaseId must be specified as the recoverable database resource ID to restore.

Restore: Creates a database by restoring a backup of a deleted database. sourceDatabaseId must be specified. If sourceDatabaseId is the database's original resource ID, then sourceDatabaseDeletionDate must be specified. Otherwise sourceDatabaseId must be the restorable dropped database resource ID and sourceDatabaseDeletionDate is ignored. restorePointInTime may also be specified to restore from an earlier point in time.

RestoreLongTermRetentionBackup: Creates a database by restoring from a long term retention vault. recoveryServicesRecoveryPointResourceId must be specified as the recovery point resource ID.

Copy, Secondary, and RestoreLongTermRetentionBackup are not supported for DataWarehouse edition.
"Copy"
"Default"
"OnlineSecondary"
"PointInTimeRestore"
"Recovery"
"Restore"
"RestoreExternalBackup"
"RestoreExternalBackupSecondary"
"RestoreLongTermRetentionBackup"
"Secondary"
elasticPoolId The resource identifier of the elastic pool containing this database. string
encryptionProtector The azure key vault URI of the database if it's configured with per Database Customer Managed Keys. string
encryptionProtectorAutoRotation The flag to enable or disable auto rotation of database encryption protector AKV key. bool
federatedClientId The Client id used for cross tenant per database CMK scenario string

Constraints:
Min length = 36
Max length = 36
Pattern = ^[0-9a-fA-F]{8}-([0-9a-fA-F]{4}-){3}[0-9a-fA-F]{12}$
freeLimitExhaustionBehavior Specifies the behavior when monthly free limits are exhausted for the free database.

AutoPause: The database will be auto paused upon exhaustion of free limits for remainder of the month.

BillForUsage: The database will continue to be online upon exhaustion of free limits and any overage will be billed.
"AutoPause"
"BillOverUsage"
highAvailabilityReplicaCount The number of secondary replicas associated with the database that are used to provide high availability. Not applicable to a Hyperscale database within an elastic pool. int
isLedgerOn Whether or not this database is a ledger database, which means all tables in the database are ledger tables. Note: the value of this property cannot be changed after the database has been created. bool
keys The resource ids of the user assigned identities to use DatabasePropertiesKeys
licenseType The license type to apply for this database. LicenseIncluded if you need a license, or BasePrice if you have a license and are eligible for the Azure Hybrid Benefit. "BasePrice"
"LicenseIncluded"
longTermRetentionBackupResourceId The resource identifier of the long term retention backup associated with create operation of this database. string
maintenanceConfigurationId Maintenance configuration id assigned to the database. This configuration defines the period when the maintenance updates will occur. string
manualCutover Whether or not customer controlled manual cutover needs to be done during Update Database operation to Hyperscale tier.

This property is only applicable when scaling database from Business Critical/General Purpose/Premium/Standard tier to Hyperscale tier.

When manualCutover is specified, the scaling operation will wait for user input to trigger cutover to Hyperscale database.

To trigger cutover, please provide 'performCutover' parameter when the Scaling operation is in Waiting state.
bool
maxSizeBytes The max size of the database expressed in bytes. int
minCapacity Minimal capacity that database will always have allocated, if not paused Specify a decimal value as a string. int or json decimal
performCutover To trigger customer controlled manual cutover during the wait state while Scaling operation is in progress.

This property parameter is only applicable for scaling operations that are initiated along with 'manualCutover' parameter.

This property is only applicable when scaling database from Business Critical/General Purpose/Premium/Standard tier to Hyperscale tier is already in progress.

When performCutover is specified, the scaling operation will trigger cutover and perform role-change to Hyperscale database.
bool
preferredEnclaveType Type of enclave requested on the database i.e. Default or VBS enclaves. "Default"
"VBS"
readScale The state of read-only routing. If enabled, connections that have application intent set to readonly in their connection string may be routed to a readonly secondary replica in the same region. Not applicable to a Hyperscale database within an elastic pool. "Disabled"
"Enabled"
recoverableDatabaseId The resource identifier of the recoverable database associated with create operation of this database. string
recoveryServicesRecoveryPointId The resource identifier of the recovery point associated with create operation of this database. string
requestedBackupStorageRedundancy The storage account type to be used to store backups for this database. "Geo"
"GeoZone"
"Local"
"Zone"
restorableDroppedDatabaseId The resource identifier of the restorable dropped database associated with create operation of this database. string
restorePointInTime Specifies the point in time (ISO8601 format) of the source database that will be restored to create the new database. string
sampleName The name of the sample schema to apply when creating this database. "AdventureWorksLT"
"WideWorldImportersFull"
"WideWorldImportersStd"
secondaryType The secondary type of the database if it is a secondary. Valid values are Geo, Named and Standby. "Geo"
"Named"
"Standby"
sourceDatabaseDeletionDate Specifies the time that the database was deleted. string
sourceDatabaseId The resource identifier of the source database associated with create operation of this database. string
sourceResourceId The resource identifier of the source associated with the create operation of this database.

This property is only supported for DataWarehouse edition and allows to restore across subscriptions.

When sourceResourceId is specified, sourceDatabaseId, recoverableDatabaseId, restorableDroppedDatabaseId and sourceDatabaseDeletionDate must not be specified and CreateMode must be PointInTimeRestore, Restore or Recover.

When createMode is PointInTimeRestore, sourceResourceId must be the resource ID of the existing database or existing sql pool, and restorePointInTime must be specified.

When createMode is Restore, sourceResourceId must be the resource ID of restorable dropped database or restorable dropped sql pool.

When createMode is Recover, sourceResourceId must be the resource ID of recoverable database or recoverable sql pool.

When source subscription belongs to a different tenant than target subscription, “x-ms-authorization-auxiliary” header must contain authentication token for the source tenant. For more details about “x-ms-authorization-auxiliary” header see /azure/azure-resource-manager/management/authenticate-multi-tenant
string
useFreeLimit Whether or not the database uses free monthly limits. Allowed on one database in a subscription. bool
zoneRedundant Whether or not this database is zone redundant, which means the replicas of this database will be spread across multiple availability zones. bool

DatabasePropertiesKeys

Name Description Value
{customized property} DatabaseKey

DatabaseKey

This object doesn't contain any properties to set during deployment. All properties are ReadOnly.

Sku

Name Description Value
capacity Capacity of the particular SKU. int
family If the service has different generations of hardware, for the same SKU, then that can be captured here. string
name The name of the SKU, typically, a letter + Number code, e.g. P3. string (required)
size Size of the particular SKU string
tier The tier or edition of the particular SKU, e.g. Basic, Premium. string