Databases - Failover

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444/resourceGroups/group1/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/testServer/databases/testDatabase/failover?api-version=2025-01-01&replicaType=Primary

from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential

from azure.mgmt.sql import SqlManagementClient

"""
# PREREQUISITES
 pip install azure-identity
 pip install azure-mgmt-sql
# USAGE
 python failover_database.py

 Before run the sample, please set the values of the client ID, tenant ID and client secret
 of the AAD application as environment variables: AZURE_CLIENT_ID, AZURE_TENANT_ID,
 AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET. For more info about how to get the value, please see:
 https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/develop/howto-create-service-principal-portal
"""


def main():
 client = SqlManagementClient(
 credential=DefaultAzureCredential(),
 subscription_id="SUBSCRIPTION_ID",
 )

 client.databases.begin_failover(
 resource_group_name="group1",
 server_name="testServer",
 database_name="testDatabase",
 ).result()


# x-ms-original-file: 2025-01-01/FailoverDatabase.json
if __name__ == "__main__":
 main()

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using Azure;
using Azure.ResourceManager;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Azure.Core;
using Azure.Identity;
using Azure.ResourceManager.Models;
using Azure.ResourceManager.Sql.Models;
using Azure.ResourceManager.Sql;

// Generated from example definition: specification/sql/resource-manager/Microsoft.Sql/SQL/stable/2025-01-01/examples/FailoverDatabase.json
// this example is just showing the usage of "Databases_Failover" operation, for the dependent resources, they will have to be created separately.

// get your azure access token, for more details of how Azure SDK get your access token, please refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/azure/sdk/authentication?tabs=command-line
TokenCredential cred = new DefaultAzureCredential();
// authenticate your client
ArmClient client = new ArmClient(cred);

// this example assumes you already have this SqlDatabaseResource created on azure
// for more information of creating SqlDatabaseResource, please refer to the document of SqlDatabaseResource
string subscriptionId = "00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444";
string resourceGroupName = "group1";
string serverName = "testServer";
string databaseName = "testDatabase";
ResourceIdentifier sqlDatabaseResourceId = SqlDatabaseResource.CreateResourceIdentifier(subscriptionId, resourceGroupName, serverName, databaseName);
SqlDatabaseResource sqlDatabase = client.GetSqlDatabaseResource(sqlDatabaseResourceId);

// invoke the operation
ReplicaType? replicaType = ReplicaType.Primary;
await sqlDatabase.FailoverAsync(WaitUntil.Completed, replicaType: replicaType);

Console.WriteLine("Succeeded");

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