Azure SQL Database Created Using 2014-04-01 API - Is this an issue?

Question

I have received the email like everyone else saying

"Azure SQL Database 2014-04-01 APIs will be retired on 31 October 2025. As part of this, all version 2014-04-01 APIs will be retired on 31 October 2025. You’ll need to update your resources, including templates, tools, scripts, and programs, to use a newer API version by then. Any API calls still using the older versions after that date will stop working until you’ve updated them."

My question is this. I have some databases, that I still use, and they were INITIALLY created using the API in question. I haven't used the the API since, just connect to the db's from websites, via a connection string and use them as normal databases for a website.

Do I need to do anything to these databases?

Or are they fine and this notice is literally about using the API going forward?

Answer 1

@Lee Thanks for posting your question in the Microsoft Q&A forum.

You don’t need to worry about the databases if you’re only connecting to them via connection strings for your websites.

The retirement notice is specifically about the API version used for managing and interacting with Azure SQL Database resources programmatically.

Since you mentioned that you haven’t used the 2014-04-01 API since initially creating the databases and are just using them as normal databases, you should be fine.

The notice is about updating any scripts, tools, or programs that might still be using the old API version to manage the databases

Additional resources

https://github.com/mgnoonan/RssFeeder/issues/336

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1073330/retirement-notice-azure-sql-database-2014-04-01-ap

Regards

Geetha