Failover Groups - Try Planned Before Forced Failover

Service:: SQL Database

API Version:: 2025-01-01

Fails over from the current primary server to this server. This operation tries planned before forced failover but might still result in data loss.

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

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
failoverGroupName	path	True	string	The name of the failover group.
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.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	FailoverGroup	Azure operation completed successfully.
202 Accepted		Resource operation accepted. Headers Location: string Retry-After: integer
Other Status Codes	ErrorResponse	An unexpected error response.

Name

Type

Description

200 OK

FailoverGroup

Azure operation completed successfully.

202 Accepted

Resource operation accepted.

Headers

Location: string
Retry-After: integer

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

Try planned before forced failover of a failover group

Sample request

HTTP

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444/resourceGroups/Default/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/failovergroupsecondaryserver/failoverGroups/failovergrouptest3/tryPlannedBeforeForcedFailover?api-version=2025-01-01

Sample response

Status code:: 200

{
  "name": "failovergrouptest3",
  "type": "Microsoft.Sql/servers/failoverGroups",
  "id": "/subscriptions/00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444/resourceGroups/Default/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/failovergroupsecondaryserver/failoverGroups/failovergrouptest3",
  "location": "Japan West",
  "properties": {
    "databases": [
      "/subscriptions/00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444/resourceGroups/Default/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/failovergroupsecondaryserver/databases/testdb1",
      "/subscriptions/00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444/resourceGroups/Default/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/failovergroupsecondaryserver/databases/testdb2"
    ],
    "partnerServers": [
      {
        "id": "/subscriptions/00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444/resourceGroups/Default/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/failovergroupprimaryserver",
        "location": "Japan East",
        "replicationRole": "Secondary"
      }
    ],
    "readOnlyEndpoint": {
      "failoverPolicy": "Disabled",
      "targetServer": "/subscriptions/00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444/resourceGroups/Default/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/failovergroupprimaryserver"
    },
    "readWriteEndpoint": {
      "failoverPolicy": "Automatic",
      "failoverWithDataLossGracePeriodMinutes": 120
    },
    "replicationRole": "Primary",
    "replicationState": "CATCH_UP"
  }
}

Status code:: 202

Location: /subscriptions/00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444/resourceGroups/Default/providers/Microsoft.Sql/locations/japanwest/failoverGroupOperationResults/11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111

Definitions

Name	Description
createdByType	The type of identity that created the resource.
ErrorAdditionalInfo	The resource management error additional info.
ErrorDetail	The error detail.
ErrorResponse	Error response
FailoverGroup	A failover group.
FailoverGroupDatabasesSecondaryType	Databases secondary type on partner server.
FailoverGroupReadOnlyEndpoint	Read-only endpoint of the failover group instance.
FailoverGroupReadWriteEndpoint	Read-write endpoint of the failover group instance.
FailoverGroupReplicationRole	Local replication role of the failover group instance.
PartnerInfo	Partner server information for the failover group.
ReadOnlyEndpointFailoverPolicy	Failover policy of the read-only endpoint for the failover group.
ReadWriteEndpointFailoverPolicy	Failover policy of the read-write endpoint for the failover group. If failoverPolicy is Automatic then failoverWithDataLossGracePeriodMinutes is required.
systemData	Metadata pertaining to creation and last modification of the resource.

createdByType

Enumeration

The type of identity that created the resource.

Value	Description
User
Application
ManagedIdentity
Key

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.

FailoverGroup

Object

A failover group.

Name	Type	Description
id	string (arm-id)	Fully qualified resource ID for the resource. E.g. "/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/{resourceProviderNamespace}/{resourceType}/{resourceName}"
location	string	Resource location.
name	string	The name of the resource
properties.databases	string[] (arm-id)	List of databases in the failover group.
properties.partnerServers	PartnerInfo[]	List of partner server information for the failover group.
properties.readOnlyEndpoint	FailoverGroupReadOnlyEndpoint	Read-only endpoint of the failover group instance.
properties.readWriteEndpoint	FailoverGroupReadWriteEndpoint	Read-write endpoint of the failover group instance.
properties.replicationRole	FailoverGroupReplicationRole	Local replication role of the failover group instance.
properties.replicationState	string	Replication state of the failover group instance.
properties.secondaryType	FailoverGroupDatabasesSecondaryType	Databases secondary type on partner server.
systemData	systemData	Azure Resource Manager metadata containing createdBy and modifiedBy information.
tags	object	Resource tags.
type	string	The type of the resource. E.g. "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines" or "Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts"

FailoverGroupDatabasesSecondaryType

Enumeration

Databases secondary type on partner server.

Value	Description
Geo	Geo
Standby	Standby

FailoverGroupReadOnlyEndpoint

Object

Read-only endpoint of the failover group instance.

Name	Type	Description
failoverPolicy	ReadOnlyEndpointFailoverPolicy	Failover policy of the read-only endpoint for the failover group.
targetServer	string (arm-id)	The target partner server where the read-only endpoint points to.

FailoverGroupReadWriteEndpoint

Object

Read-write endpoint of the failover group instance.

Name	Type	Description
failoverPolicy	ReadWriteEndpointFailoverPolicy	Failover policy of the read-write endpoint for the failover group. If failoverPolicy is Automatic then failoverWithDataLossGracePeriodMinutes is required.
failoverWithDataLossGracePeriodMinutes	integer (int32)	Grace period before failover with data loss is attempted for the read-write endpoint. If failoverPolicy is Automatic then failoverWithDataLossGracePeriodMinutes is required.

FailoverGroupReplicationRole

Enumeration

Local replication role of the failover group instance.

Value	Description
Primary	Primary
Secondary	Secondary

PartnerInfo

Object

Partner server information for the failover group.

Name	Type	Description
id	string (arm-id)	Resource identifier of the partner server.
location	string	Geo location of the partner server.
replicationRole	FailoverGroupReplicationRole	Replication role of the partner server.

ReadOnlyEndpointFailoverPolicy

Enumeration

Failover policy of the read-only endpoint for the failover group.

Value	Description
Disabled	Disabled
Enabled	Enabled

ReadWriteEndpointFailoverPolicy

Enumeration

Failover policy of the read-write endpoint for the failover group. If failoverPolicy is Automatic then failoverWithDataLossGracePeriodMinutes is required.

Value	Description
Manual	Manual
Automatic	Automatic

systemData

Object

Metadata pertaining to creation and last modification of the resource.

Name	Type	Description
createdAt	string (date-time)	The timestamp of resource creation (UTC).
createdBy	string	The identity that created the resource.
createdByType	createdByType	The type of identity that created the resource.
lastModifiedAt	string (date-time)	The timestamp of resource last modification (UTC)
lastModifiedBy	string	The identity that last modified the resource.
lastModifiedByType	createdByType	The type of identity that last modified the resource.

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Failover Groups - Try Planned Before Forced Failover

URI Parameters

Responses

Security

azure_auth

Scopes

Examples

Try planned before forced failover of a failover group

Sample request

Sample response

Definitions

createdByType

ErrorAdditionalInfo

ErrorDetail

ErrorResponse

FailoverGroup

FailoverGroupDatabasesSecondaryType

FailoverGroupReadOnlyEndpoint

FailoverGroupReadWriteEndpoint

FailoverGroupReplicationRole

PartnerInfo

ReadOnlyEndpointFailoverPolicy

ReadWriteEndpointFailoverPolicy

systemData