Databases - Rename

Service:

SQL Database

API Version:

2025-01-01

Renames a database.

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/{serverName}/databases/{databaseName}/move?api-version=2025-01-01

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
databaseName	path	True	string	The name of the database.
resourceGroupName	path	True	string minLength: 1 maxLength: 90	The name of the resource group. The name is case insensitive.
serverName	path	True	string	The name of the server.
subscriptionId	path	True	string (uuid)	The ID of the target subscription. The value must be an UUID.
api-version	query	True	string minLength: 1	The API version to use for this operation.

Request Body

Name	Required	Type	Description
id	True	string	The target ID for the resource

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK		The request has succeeded.
Other Status Codes	ErrorResponse	An unexpected error response.

Security

azure_auth

Azure Active Directory OAuth2 Flow.

Type: oauth2
Flow: implicit
Authorization URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize

Scopes

Name	Description
user_impersonation	impersonate your user account

Examples

Renames a database.

Sample request

HTTP

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444/resourceGroups/Default-SQL-SouthEastAsia/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/testsvr/databases/testdb/move?api-version=2025-01-01

{
  "id": "/subscriptions/00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444/resourceGroups/Default-SQL-SouthEastAsia/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/testsvr/databases/newtestdb"
}

Sample response

Status code:

200

Definitions

Name	Description
ErrorAdditionalInfo	The resource management error additional info.
ErrorDetail	The error detail.
ErrorResponse	Error response
ResourceMoveDefinition	Contains the information necessary to perform a resource move (rename).

ErrorAdditionalInfo

Object

The resource management error additional info.

Name	Type	Description
info	object	The additional info.
type	string	The additional info type.

ErrorDetail

Object

The error detail.

Name	Type	Description
additionalInfo	ErrorAdditionalInfo[]	The error additional info.
code	string	The error code.
details	ErrorDetail[]	The error details.
message	string	The error message.
target	string	The error target.

ErrorResponse

Object

Error response

Name	Type	Description
error	ErrorDetail	The error object.

ResourceMoveDefinition

Object

Contains the information necessary to perform a resource move (rename).

Name	Type	Description
id	string	The target ID for the resource