List Restorable Dropped 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

Gets a list of restorable dropped databases for an Azure SQL Database 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 Restorable Dropped Databases request must be specified as follows:

Replace {subscription-id} 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}/restorabledroppeddatabases?contentview=generic	HTTP/1.1

Executing this method submits the request. The operation will begin processing and complete processing at some later time. Use Database Operation Status (classic) to report on the status of the operation.

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:

<ServiceResources xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsazure" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">  
  <ServiceResource>  
    <Name>testdb2</Name>  
    <Type>Microsoft.SqlAzure.RestorableDroppedDatabase</Type>  
    <State>Deleted</State>  
    <SelfLink>https://management.core.windows.net/00000000-0000-0000-0001-000000000001/services/sqlservers/servers/bpr0d6li5t/restorabledroppeddatabases/testdb2,2013-09-17T22:01:40.923</SelfLink>  
    <ParentLink>https://management.core.windows.net/00000000-0000-0000-0001-000000000001/services/sqlservers/servers/bpr0d6li5t</ParentLink>  
    <EntityId>testdb2,2013-09-17T22:01:40.923</EntityId>  
    <ServerName>bpr0d6li5t</ServerName>  
    <Edition>Web</Edition>  
    <MaxSizeBytes>1073741824</MaxSizeBytes>  
    <CreationDate>2013-08-29T21:38:54.5330000</CreationDate>  
    <DeletionDate>2013-09-17T22:01:40.9230000</DeletionDate>  
    <RecoveryPeriodStartDate>2013-09-03T00:00:00.0000000Z</RecoveryPeriodStartDate>  
  </ServiceResource>  
</ServiceResources>

The following table describes the elements of the response body:

Element Name	Description
Name	The name of the database.
Type	The type of the service resource; Microsoft.SqlAzure.RestorableDroppedDatabase.
State	The state of the database.
SelfLink	The URI identifier for this resource.
ParentLink	The URI identifier for the parent of this resource (the server).
EntityId	The identifier for the service resource.
ServerName	The name of the Azure SQL Database server.
Edition	The edition of the database.
MaxSizeBytes	The max size of the database in bytes.
CreationDate	The original creation date of the database.
DeletionDate	The date the database was deleted.
RecoveryPeriodStartDate	The starting date of the recovery period.