Azure SQL Database
An Azure relational database service.
6,345 questions
1 answer
Request for Waiver of Unexpected Azure MSSQL Database Billing Charges
Dear Azure Support Team, I hope this message finds you well. My name is Vijay, and I am writing on behalf of Flutter Media Pvt Ltd regarding our Azure account Subscription ID : 2d6f7172-2e20-4935-bcc6-cead86bc93eb. We have recently noticed an…
Azure SQL Database
asked 2025-06-25T14:32:04.21+00:00
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Vijay Babariay
0
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commented 2025-07-04T05:56:29.5766667+00:00
TP
125.8K
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Volunteer Moderator
1 answer
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Impact of Azure SQL Database 2014-04-01 APIs will be retired on 31 October 2025
We don't use any of the APIs to access the SQL Server database. We do however connect to the database and make calls using System.Data.SqlClient. We are current using .Net Framework 4.6.1 for our desktop application. Will the retirement of these APIs…
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database
An Azure relational database service.
6,345 questions
asked 2025-07-03T15:38:59.63+00:00
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Andre Kramer
20
Reputation points
accepted 2025-07-03T17:24:29.79+00:00
Andre Kramer
20
Reputation points
1 answer
Unable to configure Geo zone redundant backup storage for new subscription at North Europe
I was trying to create database in subscription ClarraProdEU with Geo zone redundant backup storage with hyperscale HA. But was getting error every time received below error. Failed to scale from Standard S4: 200 DTUs, 250 GB storage to Hyperscale:…
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database
An Azure relational database service.
6,345 questions
asked 2025-06-24T17:38:43.8733333+00:00
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Subhajit Saha
0
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commented 2025-07-03T17:04:30.88+00:00
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Mahesh Kurva
5,210
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
Moderator
2 answers
One of the answers was accepted by the question author.
APIs will be retired on 31 October 2025
I'm getting told I need to update API as it expires 31 October 2025 for SQL DB. I don't think I'm using the API anywhere, how can I check?
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database
An Azure relational database service.
6,345 questions
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One of the answers was accepted by the question author.
Find Usage - Upgrade Azure SQL Database 2014-04-01 APIs to a newer version by 31 October 2025
Hello, I am a newer employee to my company and am not entirely familiar with all of our legacy systems. Given this and the email I received today regarding a retiring of an older SQL Database API version, is there a way I can look at our Azure account…
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database
An Azure relational database service.
6,345 questions
asked 2025-07-03T13:27:24.2666667+00:00
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Jarrod Christman
20
Reputation points
accepted 2025-07-03T14:09:17.5233333+00:00
Jarrod Christman
20
Reputation points
2 answers
Action required: Upgrade Azure SQL Database 2014-04-01 APIs to a newer version by 31 October 2025
Hello All, I received an email from MS Azure stipulating that I need to update my Azure SQL Server API's to a newer version. Here is what was stated in the email: Azure SQL Database 2014-04-01 APIs will be retired on 31 October 2025 You're receiving…
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database
An Azure relational database service.
6,345 questions
asked 2025-02-09T22:38:00.9833333+00:00
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K
0
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commented 2025-07-03T11:39:45.72+00:00
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Saraswathi Devadula
6,850
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
Moderator
2 answers
Azure SQL serverless database auto pause long term back up option
Hello, we have an Azure SQL serverless database which we have auto-pause enabled. However, the built-in LTR back up option is not available when auto-pause is enabled. Given that our database doesn't need to be live 24/7, I think we still want the…
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database
An Azure relational database service.
6,345 questions
asked 2023-10-11T15:12:11.12+00:00
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Jack Wong
10
Reputation points
answered 2025-07-03T09:53:12.0133333+00:00
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arto pihlaja priva
0
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3 answers
Handling Timezone Differences for ASP.NET Core Microservices and SQL Server
Hi Team, We have several microservices built with ASP.NET Core running in container apps and SQL Server as the backend database. These services are currently hosted in the Central India Azure datacenter. Our application primarily serves clients in Saudi…
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database
An Azure relational database service.
6,345 questions
Azure Container Apps
Azure Container Apps
An Azure service that provides a general-purpose, serverless container platform.
694 questions
asked 2025-06-18T08:20:05.9633333+00:00
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Shady Dorgham
25
Reputation points
commented 2025-07-03T04:14:57.1566667+00:00
Saraswathi Devadula
6,850
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
Moderator
0 answers
Unknown infrastructure error when creating the recommended index on Azure SQL
Hi! I received "Unknown infrastructure error" when executed one of the recommended index queries in the Azure portal for an Azure SQL database. Is there any way to re-run the recommended index script or find out why the error occurred? After…
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database
An Azure relational database service.
6,345 questions
asked 2021-02-18T15:53:43.037+00:00
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ALos
11
Reputation points
commented 2025-07-02T05:12:04.34+00:00
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Saju Prabhakaran
0
Reputation points
0 answers
Some values in a table are not being restored after restoring a SQL Managed Instance in Azure
Hi, I have a .bak backup of my database. When I restore this locally using SQL Server Management Studio 21 I can see that all the data is restored correctly. Particularly a column called Description in TableD which is defined as (NVARCHAR(1024), NULL).…
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database
An Azure relational database service.
6,345 questions
asked 2025-07-01T13:28:41.9566667+00:00
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Yusuf Rafiq
0
Reputation points
commented 2025-07-02T03:34:20.7233333+00:00
Saraswathi Devadula
6,850
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
Moderator
1 answer
What does the following imply? "You cannot transfer an Azure SQL database with Microsoft Entra authentication enabled to a different directory."
I am looking to transfer an Azure subscription to a different Microsoft Entra directory. As part of this process, I want to understand the impact on my Azure SQL databases that use Microsoft Entra authentication. The documentation states that **"You…
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database
An Azure relational database service.
6,345 questions
asked 2025-02-14T20:23:56.0566667+00:00
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Thabang Xabanisa
0
Reputation points
commented 2025-07-02T02:50:10.01+00:00
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Abdulahman Geddawi
0
Reputation points
1 answer
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Navigating to databases causes 404 error
I have some databases on a SQL sever in Azure. One is called CompanyName, the other ServerName/CompanyName. Company name is the real database I use and is on the basic tier, ServerName/CompanyName is a different database (I can see them both in Azure…
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database
An Azure relational database service.
6,345 questions
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1 answer
"DBCC SHRINKFILE for data files is not supported in a Hyperscale database" error trying to shrink db
I get the following when attempting to use either SHRINKFILE or SHRINKDATABASE: "DBCC SHRINKFILE for data files is not supported in a Hyperscale database when the database is not encrypted or protector change is in progress. Enable transparent…
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database
An Azure relational database service.
6,345 questions
asked 2025-06-13T18:15:45.7566667+00:00
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Nathan Allan
0
Reputation points
commented 2025-07-01T15:50:07.36+00:00
Oury Ba-MSFT
20,931
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
Moderator
2 answers
How can I locally develop my Spring Boot application against an Azure SQL DB using passwordless connections?
According to the documentation, the passwordless option is only for the hosted environment. This creates a challenge for developing locally because the authentication mechanism is different. How do I set up my local development so that it works the…
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database
An Azure relational database service.
6,345 questions
Azure Spring Apps
Azure Spring Apps
An Azure platform as a service for running Spring Boot applications at cloud scale. Previously known as Azure Spring Cloud.
134 questions
asked 2025-01-16T13:58:23.9933333+00:00
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Oblio
51
Reputation points
commented 2025-06-30T23:40:18.61+00:00
Oury Ba-MSFT
20,931
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
Moderator
1 answer
Enabling user authentication to connect Access front end to Azure SQL Database
I need to connect/link the tables in Access to an Azure SQL database using ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server. I am trying to use New Data Source->From Database->From Azure Database to authenticate with either Azure AD Password or Interactive…
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database
An Azure relational database service.
6,345 questions
asked 2024-07-12T16:24:59.9766667+00:00
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George Dimitrov
0
Reputation points
edited the question 2025-06-30T20:46:43.3133333+00:00
Oury Ba-MSFT
20,931
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
Moderator
1 answer
Automatic tuning is not creating indexes on our SQL database
We have automatic tuning turned on with Create Index ON, but it no longer creates indexes like it used to.
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database
An Azure relational database service.
6,345 questions
asked 2025-06-04T21:06:09.1066667+00:00
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Kevin Hannan
6
Reputation points
commented 2025-06-30T20:39:35.5966667+00:00
Oury Ba-MSFT
20,931
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
Moderator
3 answers
Is is possible to replicate Azure SQL Backups to a external cloud
I have configured backups for my Azure SQL database and I'm interested in replicating the LTR backups to an external cloud like AWS or GCP. For example, if I can configure Azure to place the LTR backups into a storage account, then I could build the…
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database
An Azure relational database service.
6,345 questions
asked 2024-05-14T21:10:30.66+00:00
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Kevin Schmidt
0
Reputation points
commented 2025-06-30T11:00:53.43+00:00
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MOHAMED AKOUR
0
Reputation points
1 answer
One of the answers was accepted by the question author.
Azure Data Sync : Error while adding a table back to sync group
Azure Data Sync : Error while adding a table back to sync group We have an Azure Sync Group with multiple tables being synced from Azure SQL DB to an on-prem SQL DB. We removed one particular table from the sync group as we had to do some data type…
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database
An Azure relational database service.
6,345 questions
asked 2025-06-25T11:26:10.42+00:00
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Aaron Wong
20
Reputation points
accepted 2025-06-30T09:05:12.1266667+00:00
Aaron Wong
20
Reputation points
0 answers
Was maliciously hacked, Database deleted, and cannot figure out how to create a support ticket.
I can't figure out how to get a support ticket entered. I just keep getting documentation answer for how to restore sql, but we have been maliciously hacked and they deleted our entire database and are signing in to our backup storage to delete that... …
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database
An Azure relational database service.
6,345 questions
asked 2025-06-26T14:44:08.2233333+00:00
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Rick Stephenson
0
Reputation points
commented 2025-06-30T09:03:06.0933333+00:00
Mahesh Kurva
5,210
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
Moderator
2 answers
How can we scale the read operations on our SQL DB instance?
We have a web application with a SQL Server DB. The application sees about 40-75 daily active users, with only half of those performing more than a couple tasks. So a pretty light load at this point. Our production Azure SQL DB is a "Basic"…
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database
An Azure relational database service.
6,345 questions
asked 2025-04-23T21:14:01.88+00:00
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Shea Martin
0
Reputation points
commented 2025-06-29T13:56:07.4+00:00
Shea Martin
0
Reputation points