List Databases (classic)

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11/26/2018

THIS TOPIC APPLIES TO: SQL Server yes Azure SQL Database yes Azure SQL Data Warehouse Parallel Data Warehouse

Returns a list of Azure SQL Databases on a given server.

Important

The recommended REST commands to work with SQL Database are the Resource Manager based Azure SQL Database REST API. While there is no change to SQL Database, be aware that the classic deployment model command in this article is scheduled for deprecation on December 1, 2019. For a table providing links to the specific new commands you should use, see Operations for Azure SQL Databases.

Request

The List Databases request must be specified as follows:

Replace {subscriptionId} with your subscription ID.
Replace {serverName} with the name of the server containing the databases you want to list.

Method	Request URI	HTTP Version
GET	https://management.core.windows.net:8443/{subscriptionId}/services/sqlservers/servers/{serverName}/databases?contentview=generic	HTTP/1.1

URI Parameters

None.

Request Headers

The following table describes the required and optional request headers:

Request Header	Description
x-ms-version	Required. Specifies the version of the operation to use for this request. This header should be set to 2012-03-01.

Request Body

None.

Response

The response includes an HTTP status code, a set of response headers, and a response body.

Status Code

Response Headers

The response for this operation includes the following headers. The response may also include additional standard HTTP headers. All standard headers conform to the HTTP/1.1 protocol specification.

Response Header	Description
x-ms-request-id	A value that uniquely identifies a request made against the database management service. This request id is used for request tracking. If a failure occurs that requires the user to contact Microsoft Support, the request id should be provided to Microsoft to assist in tracking and resolving the failure for the request.

Response Body

The following is an example response body for a server with only one database:

<ServiceResources xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsazure" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">  
  <ServiceResource>  
    <Name>newDatabase</Name>  
    <Type>Microsoft.SqlAzure.Database</Type>  
    <State>Normal</State>  
    <SelfLink>https://management.core.windows.net/00000000-0000-0000-0001-000000000001/services/sqlservers/servers/serverv1/databases/newDatabase</SelfLink>  
    <ParentLink>https://management.core.windows.net/00000000-0000-0000-0001-000000000001/services/sqlservers/servers/serverv1</ParentLink>  
    <Id>6</Id>  
    <Edition>Business</Edition>  
    <CollationName>SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS</CollationName>  
    <CreationDate>2014-04-08T20:28:22.4100000Z</CreationDate>  
    <IsFederationRoot>False</IsFederationRoot>  
     <IsSystemObject>False</IsSystemObject>  
    <SizeMB i:nil="true"/>  
    <MaxSizeBytes>10737418240</MaxSizeBytes>  
    <ServiceObjectiveId>910b4fcb-8a29-4c3e-958f-f7ba794388b2</ServiceObjectiveId>  
    <AssignedServiceObjectiveId>910b4fcb-8a29-4c3e-958f-f7ba794388b2</AssignedServiceObjectiveId>  
    <ServiceObjectiveAssignmentState>1</ServiceObjectiveAssignmentState>  
    <ServiceObjectiveAssignmentStateDescription>Complete</ServiceObjectiveAssignmentStateDescription>  
    <ServiceObjectiveAssignmentErrorCode>0</ServiceObjectiveAssignmentErrorCode>  
    <ServiceObjectiveAssignmentErrorDescription i:nil="true"/>  
    <ServiceObjectiveAssignmentSuccessDate>2014-04-08T20:28:28.9170000Z</ServiceObjectiveAssignmentSuccessDate>  
    <RecoveryPeriodStartDate>2014-04-08T20:29:18.5230000Z</RecoveryPeriodStartDate>  
  </ServiceResource>  
</ServiceResources>

If the server has more than one database, there will be a <ServiceResource> section for each database.

For information about the response body elements, see Get Database (classic).

Example

The following console application returns a list of the databases on a server.

Replace the following values:

{subscriptionId} – replace with the subscription identifier for your subscription.
{serverName} – replace with the name of your server.
{thumbprint} – replace with the thumbprint of a management certificate in your subscription.

using System;  
using System.Collections.Generic;  
using System.Linq;  
using System.Text;  
using System.Threading.Tasks;  
using System.IO;  
using System.Xml;  
using System.Security;  
using System.Security.Cryptography;  
using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;  
using System.Net;  
  
namespace ListDatabase  
{  
    /// <summary>  
    /// Lists databases on a server.  
    /// </summary>  
    class Program  
    {  
        static void Main(string[] args)  
        {  
            Uri requestUri = new Uri("https://management.core.windows.net:8443/"  
                        + "{subscriptionId}"  
                        + "/services"  
                        + "/sqlservers/servers/{serverName}/databases?contentview=generic");  
  
            // Create the request and specify attributes.  
            HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(requestUri);  
  
            // Add a x-ms-version header to specify API version.  
            request.Headers.Add("x-ms-version", "2012-03-01");  
  
            // Generate a request ID that can be used to identify this request in the service logs.  
            string clientRequestId = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();  
            request.Headers.Add("x-ms-client-request-id", clientRequestId);  
            request.Method = "GET";  
            request.ContentType = "application/xml";  
  
            // The thumbprint value of the management certificate.  
            // Replace {thumbprint} with the thumbprint of a management certificate associated with your subscription.  
            // It must also be installed on the machine accessing the API.  
            string certThumbprint = "{thumbprint}";  
  
            // Create a reference to the My certificate store.  
            X509Store certStore = new X509Store(StoreName.My, StoreLocation.CurrentUser);  
  
            // Open the store.  
            certStore.Open(OpenFlags.ReadOnly);  
  
            // Find the certificate that matches the thumbprint.  
            X509Certificate2Collection certCollection = certStore.Certificates.Find(X509FindType.FindByThumbprint, certThumbprint, false);  
            certStore.Close();  
  
            // Verify the certificate was added to the collection.  
            if (0 == certCollection.Count)  
            {  
                throw new Exception("Error: No certificate found with thumbprint " + certThumbprint);  
            }  
  
            // Create an X509Certificate2 object using our matching certificate.  
            X509Certificate2 certificate = certCollection[0];  
  
            // Attach the certificate to the request.  
            request.ClientCertificates.Add(certificate);  
  
            try  
            {  
                using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())  
                using (Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream())  
                using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream))  
                {  
                    // Display the client request ID.  
                    Console.WriteLine("clientRequestId: " + clientRequestId);  
  
                    // Display the web response status code.  
                    Console.WriteLine("Response status code: " + response.StatusCode);  
  
                    // Display the request ID returned by Windows Azure.  
                    Console.WriteLine("x-ms-request-id: "  
                        + response.Headers["x-ms-request-id"]);  
  
                    // Display the raw response.  
                    Console.WriteLine("Received response:");  
                    Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadToEnd());  
                }  
            }  
            catch (Exception e)  
            {  
                Console.WriteLine(e.StackTrace);  
            }  
        }  
    }  
}