Delete Database (classic)

THIS TOPIC APPLIES TO: SQL Server Azure SQL DatabaseAzure SQL Data Warehouse Parallel Data Warehouse

Deletes an Azure SQL Database.

Request

The Delete Database request must be specified as follows:

• Replace {subscriptionId} with your subscription ID.

• Replace {serverName} with the name of the server where the database is located.

• Replace {databaseName} with the name of the database to delete.

If the operation succeeds changes are effective immediately. If the operation fails because of a user error, no changes will be applied. If there is a communication error or an internal server error, the status can be retrieved by using Database Operation Status (classic), or Get Database (classic).

URI Parameters

None.

Request Headers

The following table describes the required and optional request headers:

Request Body

None.

Response

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

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 Body

None.

Example

The following console application deletes an Azure SQL Database.

Replace the following values:

• {subscriptionId} – replace with the subscription identifier for your subscription.

• {serverName} – replace with the name of your server.

• {databaseName} – replace with the name of the database to delete.

• {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 DeleteDatabase  
{  
    /// <summary>  
    /// Deletes a database from 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/{databaseName}");  
  
            // Create the request and specify attributes.  
            HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(requestUri);  
  
            // Add an 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 = "DELETE";  
            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);  
            }  
        }  
    }  
}  

See Also

Common REST API Error Codes
Operations for Azure SQL Databases
Azure SQL Database
Remove-AzureSqlDatabase
Azure SQL Database Cmdlets